Comparative and Historical Sociology
Section of the American Sociological Association
Monica Prasad, Northwestern University Julian Go, University of Chicago Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University Katrina Quisumbing King, Northwestern University Yannick Coenders, Northwestern University Luna Vincent, Northwestern University Perdana P. Roswaldy, Northwestern …
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Alya Guseva, Boston University In the finest traditions of science papers, I would like to report a gigantic conflict of interest in writing about the war in Ukraine. I was …
Read More Andrew Buck, University of Southern Indiana Jeffrey Hass, University of Richmond If Twitter is a valid representation of academic discourse on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, then journalists, military scholars, and some economists …
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Tim Gill, University of Tennessee I’m honored that I was asked to share a reflection on Richard Lachmann. There are so many aspects of Richard’s life and work that I cannot speak …
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Rebecca Jean Emigh, UCLA I was deeply saddened by Richard’s untimely death. When he died, we (with David McCourt) were working on editing a new Oxford Handbook of Comparative and Historical Sociology. …
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A.K.M. Skarpelis, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) Obituaries are micro-narratives that set out to do several things at once: they revere, they mourn, they reminisce. Befitting to Richard Lachmann’s standing in the …
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Mabel Berezin, Cornell University In late 2016 in response to the widespread media narrative that linked Trump to Brexit and an array of European populists, I wrote a short essay …
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Robert M. Fishman, Carlos III University, Madrid The near-death experience of American democracy during the Trump presidency holds extraordinary significance for all who care about the principles of equality and …
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At first glance, the protesters who gathered around the American Capitol on 6. January seemed to be a motley crew. One observer espied: “Preppy looking country club Republicans, well-dressed social conservatives, and white Evangelicals in Jesus caps…standing shoulder to shoulder with QAnon cultists, Second Amendment cosplay commandos, and doughy, hardcore white nationalists.” The symbolism on display also seemed like apples and oranges. One group erected a giant cross, another a wooden gallows. Someone in the crowd waved a “Jesus Saves” banner, while another sported a “Camp Auschwitz” hoodie.
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There are two main explanations for Trump’s 2016 victory and for his voters’ enduring loyalty. One sees his support as largely racist, a reaction by white voters against having been governed by a Black man for eight years and what many of them regard as repeated insults from privileged elites. The other focuses on Obama’s neoliberal policies, which led to atepid recovery from the 2008 financial collapse and the spectacle of massive bailouts for banks but not for mortgage holders or the unemployed combined with total impunity for the rich crooks who caused the crisis.
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