DISENFRANCHISED
The Rise & Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
JOEL ANDREAS, Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, will present his forthcoming book, Disenfranchised, with responses from Cihan Tuğal, Yan Long, and Marc Blecher
Joel Andreas has written extensively on China. His award-winning book, The Rise of the Red Engineers (Stanford University Press, 2009), maps the trajectory and eventual merger of two hostile elites, arising from the birth of Communist China. It is based on a case study of Tsinghua University, the MIT of China, where inter-elite struggles played themselves out in dramatic fashion. His forthcoming book turns from the university to the industrial workplace. Turning Andrew Walder’s 1986 classic, Communist Neo-Traditionalism, on its head, Andreas studies the socialist enterprise from the standpoint of the expansion and contraction of industrial democracy. His account begins with the revolutionary seizure of power in 1949 and the installation of the “iron rice bowl” that organized every realm of worker life. Industrial citizenship was founded on secure job tenure, compressed inequalities, and extensive rights, but limited autonomy. Workers were expected not only to manage their own affairs on the shop floor, but also to actively participate in campaigns—initiated by Mao—to monitor and criticize malfeasance and abuse of power by factory party leaders. Recognizing that workers’ lack of autonomy hindered the effectiveness of these campaigns, Mao experimented with various methods of introducing autonomy, culminating in the rebel movement during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution. In reaction, the post-Mao market reforms – first slowly then drastically – dismantled the iron rice bowl with devastating consequences for job security, economic inequality, and workplace citizenship. Rising precarity has instigated widespread protest, increasingly drawn to Maoist ideals. Illustrated by his vivid and detailed worker biographies, Andreas offers a timely reappraisal of Communist China as seen from the hidden abode of production.
Cihan Tuğal is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Author of several books on Turkish and Middle Eastern politics, his latest book is Caring for the Poor: Islamic and Christian Benevolence in a Liberal World (Routledge, 2017).
Yan Long is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the forthcoming book, tentatively titled Side Effects: The Transnational Doing and Undoing of AIDS Politics in China that builds upon her award-winning dissertation.
Marc Blecher is James Monroe Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College and the author of a number of books on China, including China Against the Tides: Restructuring Through Revolution, Radicalism and Reform (Third Edition. New York: Continuum, 2009)
You can find excerpts of the book here: Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 5, Ch. 8, Ch. 9
BECOMING BLACK POLITICAL SUBJECTS
Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in
Colombia and Brazil
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
TIANNA PASCHEL, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley, will present her award-winning book, Becoming Black Political Subjects (Princeton, 2016) with responses from Tanya Golash-Boza, Mara Loveman, and Michael Watts.
Tianna Paschel’s much acclaimed Becoming Black Political Subjects examines the rise of ethno-racial rights in Colombia and Brazil, beginning in the 1980s. She shows how relatively weak social movements had surprising influence on state policies, due to the alignment of national and transnational fields. Afro-Colombian and Afro-Brazilian movements managed to exploit global fields that first advanced multi-culturalism in the 1980s and 1990s and then racial equality in the first decade of the 21st century. At the same time, historical legacies led to different national fields that gave these movements different impetuses: the Colombian movement tended to be more focused on indigenous rights, agrarian reform and autonomy, in other words the politics of difference, whereas the Brazilian movement was more focused on integration and affirmative action, in other words a politics of equality. The book not only examines positive state responses but also subsequent restriction of ethno-racial rights. Paschel effectively deploys interviews, ethnography and archival research to explore these historical convergences and divergences. The book is rapidly becoming a classic in comparative racial analysis, reverberating through the study of comparative history, social movements and politics. It has won awards from the ASA Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology, ASA Section on Human Rights, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Law and Society Association.
Excerpts from Becoming Black Political Subjects (Chapters 1 and 8) can be found at http://berkeleysociologyforum.weebly.com/
Tanya Golash-Boza is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. She has published several books on race and immigration including: Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press 2016), Forced out Fenced In: Immigration Tales from the Field (Oxford 2018), and Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru (University Press of Florida 2011).
Mara Loveman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and author of award-winning National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America (Oxford 2014) as well as many articles on race and human rights in Latin America.
Michael Watts is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored many books, including Silent Violence: Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria (University of California Press, 1983), The Curse of Black Gold (with Ed Kashi, Photographer) (Powerhouse Press, 2008); Oil Talk: The Secret Lives of the Oil and Gas Industry (edited with Arthur Mason and Hannah Appel) (Cornell University Press 2015)
Tianna Paschel’s much acclaimed Becoming Black Political Subjects examines the rise of ethno-racial rights in Colombia and Brazil, beginning in the 1980s. She shows how relatively weak social movements had surprising influence on state policies, due to the alignment of national and transnational fields. Afro-Colombian and Afro-Brazilian movements managed to exploit global fields that first advanced multi-culturalism in the 1980s and 1990s and then racial equality in the first decade of the 21st century. At the same time, historical legacies led to different national fields that gave these movements different impetuses: the Colombian movement tended to be more focused on indigenous rights, agrarian reform and autonomy, in other words the politics of difference, whereas the Brazilian movement was more focused on integration and affirmative action, in other words a politics of equality. The book not only examines positive state responses but also subsequent restriction of ethno-racial rights. Paschel effectively deploys interviews, ethnography and archival research to explore these historical convergences and divergences. The book is rapidly becoming a classic in comparative racial analysis, reverberating through the study of comparative history, social movements and politics. It has won awards from the ASA Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology, ASA Section on Human Rights, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Law and Society Association.
Excerpts from Becoming Black Political Subjects (Chapters 1 and 8) can be found at http://berkeleysociologyforum.weebly.com/
Tanya Golash-Boza is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. She has published several books on race and immigration including: Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press 2016), Forced out Fenced In: Immigration Tales from the Field (Oxford 2018), and Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru (University Press of Florida 2011).
Mara Loveman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and author of award-winning National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America (Oxford 2014) as well as many articles on race and human rights in Latin America.
Michael Watts is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored many books, including Silent Violence: Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria (University of California Press, 1983), The Curse of Black Gold (with Ed Kashi, Photographer) (Powerhouse Press, 2008); Oil Talk: The Secret Lives of the Oil and Gas Industry (edited with Arthur Mason and Hannah Appel) (Cornell University Press 2015)
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First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship
Elite politics and the Decline of Great Powers
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Richard Lachmann , Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York will present his book, First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers (Verso, Forthcoming) with responses from Jonah Stuart Brundage, Dylan Riley, and Cihan Tuğal.
Richard Lachmann (Ph.D. Harvard 1983) is professor of sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His book, Capitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 2000) received the 2003 American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award. He is the author most recently of States and Power (Polity, 2010) and What Is Historical Sociology? (Polity, 2013). His book entitled First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers, which examines the decline of dominant economic and military powers in early modern Europe and the contemporary United States, is forthcoming from Verso. He also is researching media coverage of war deaths in the United States and Israel from the 1960s to the present.
Jonah Stuart Brundage is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley. His research employs historical and comparative methods to study interrelated processes of state formation, elite formation, and geopolitics, primarily in the context of early modern Europe. He is currently writing a dissertation that analyzes eighteenth-century French and British diplomacy in connection to the emergence of modern state structures and class relations.
Dylan Riley is Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. He is author of The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy, Spain, and Romania 1870-1945 (Verso, 2010), and a two volume study entitled How Societies and States Count (Palgrave, 2016) together with Rebecca Jean Emigh and Patricia Ahmed. His next book Rethinking Liberal Democracy and the Fascist Legacy will be published by Verso.
Cihan Tuğal is Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Tuğal works on politics, economic change, and religion. His first book Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism (Stanford, 2009) studied pro-capitalist Islam and its popularization among the poor. In his second book The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism (Verso 2016), Tuğal analyzed Islamic movements and regimes in Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia and Iran. His most recent book Caring for the Poor (2017, Routledge) discusses liberalism's uneasy relations with charitable ethics. He now explores populism and revolution in the contemporary world system.
TRANS Gender & Race in an Age Of Unsettled Identities
Wednesday, September 13, 2018
Wednesday, September 13, 2018
ROGERS BRUBAKER, Professor of Sociology and UCLA Foundation Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present his book, trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities (Princeton University Press, 2016) with responses from Raka Ray, Jill Bakehorn and Mel Chen.
Rogers Brubaker has written widely on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and ethnicity. Perhaps best known for his two books on European nationalism: Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992) and Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (1996). Subsequently, he collected together a series of analytical essays, in Ethnicity without Groups (2004). Brubaker’s most recent books – Grounds for Difference (2015) and trans (2016) -- have examined the politics of difference. In Trans, Brubaker explores the strength and fluidity of identities, by comparing transitions of gender and race. Embarking from the public debates around Caitlyn Jenner’s transgender identity and Rachel Dolezal’s transracial identity, he asks why the transition from white to black would be more controversial than the transition from male to female. From here Brubaker develops a disquisition on the contemporary fluidity of identity, thinking through the meaning of trans-racial with the help of the transgender literature. He compares the political valence of “migration” from one identity to another with identities forged in “between” and “beyond” existing ones. He concludes that gender is a more voluntarist identity, recognized as a matter of internal choice, than race which is a more imposed from without.
Excerpts from Trans can be found at http://berkeleysociologyforum.weebly.com/
Raka Ray is Professor in the Berkeley Sociology Department and author of Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India (University of Minnesota, 1999) and Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity and Class in India, co-authored with Seemin Qayum (Stanford University Press, 2009). Her forthcoming book, The Social Life of Gender, co-written with former students, offers a new, global approach to teaching the Sociology of Gender in the US.
Jill Bakehorn is Lecturer in the Berkeley Sociology Department. Her dissertation, Making Authenticity Explicit: How Women-Made Pornography Constructs “Real Sex”, focuses on women who make “alternative” web and film pornography. She asks how women justify and legitimate their participation in a stigmatized profession, showing how women strategically deploy constructions of authenticity to achieve these goals. See her article, “Making Politics Explicit: Depicting Authenticity in Women-Made Pornography.” in New Sexuality Studies edited by Steven Seidman. Her current research project focuses on the cognitive dissonance faced by sociologists; the contradictions between the values we derive from sociology and how we operate in our day-to-day lives.
Mel Chen is Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies. Mel’s research and teaching interests include queer and gender theory, animal studies, critical race theory, Asian American studies, disability studies, science studies, and critical linguistics. Mel’s book Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Duke UP 2012) won the Alan Bray Memorial Award). It explores questions of racialization, queering, disability, and affective economies in animate and inanimate “life.”
Rogers Brubaker has written widely on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and ethnicity. Perhaps best known for his two books on European nationalism: Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992) and Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (1996). Subsequently, he collected together a series of analytical essays, in Ethnicity without Groups (2004). Brubaker’s most recent books – Grounds for Difference (2015) and trans (2016) -- have examined the politics of difference. In Trans, Brubaker explores the strength and fluidity of identities, by comparing transitions of gender and race. Embarking from the public debates around Caitlyn Jenner’s transgender identity and Rachel Dolezal’s transracial identity, he asks why the transition from white to black would be more controversial than the transition from male to female. From here Brubaker develops a disquisition on the contemporary fluidity of identity, thinking through the meaning of trans-racial with the help of the transgender literature. He compares the political valence of “migration” from one identity to another with identities forged in “between” and “beyond” existing ones. He concludes that gender is a more voluntarist identity, recognized as a matter of internal choice, than race which is a more imposed from without.
Excerpts from Trans can be found at http://berkeleysociologyforum.weebly.com/
Raka Ray is Professor in the Berkeley Sociology Department and author of Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India (University of Minnesota, 1999) and Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity and Class in India, co-authored with Seemin Qayum (Stanford University Press, 2009). Her forthcoming book, The Social Life of Gender, co-written with former students, offers a new, global approach to teaching the Sociology of Gender in the US.
Jill Bakehorn is Lecturer in the Berkeley Sociology Department. Her dissertation, Making Authenticity Explicit: How Women-Made Pornography Constructs “Real Sex”, focuses on women who make “alternative” web and film pornography. She asks how women justify and legitimate their participation in a stigmatized profession, showing how women strategically deploy constructions of authenticity to achieve these goals. See her article, “Making Politics Explicit: Depicting Authenticity in Women-Made Pornography.” in New Sexuality Studies edited by Steven Seidman. Her current research project focuses on the cognitive dissonance faced by sociologists; the contradictions between the values we derive from sociology and how we operate in our day-to-day lives.
Mel Chen is Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies. Mel’s research and teaching interests include queer and gender theory, animal studies, critical race theory, Asian American studies, disability studies, science studies, and critical linguistics. Mel’s book Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Duke UP 2012) won the Alan Bray Memorial Award). It explores questions of racialization, queering, disability, and affective economies in animate and inanimate “life.”
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Strangers in Their Own Land:
Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
ARLIE HOCHSCHILD, Emerita Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, will present her forthcoming book, Strangers in Their Own Land (New Press, 2016) with responses from Cihan Tuğal, Raka Ray and Paul Pierson
Arlie Hochschild is best known for her contributions to the domestic division of labor (The Second Shift), emotional labor (The Managed Heart), the rationalization of the home (Time Bind), the commodification of private life (The Commercialization of Intimate Life, The Outsourced Self). In her latest book, Strangers in Their Own Land, Hochschild takes her notion of “feeling rules” to Louisiana, exploring the emotional foundations of right wing politics (The Tea Party and support for Donald Trump) by studying divergent responses to one of the most pressing issues facing the region – environmental pollution. On the basis of her fieldwork, conducted between 2011 and 2016, Hochschild advances the “deep story” of supporters of the American right: “…the shifting moral qualifications for the American Dream had turned them into strangers in their own land, afraid, resentful, displaced, and dismissed by the very people who were, they felt, cutting in line.”
Cihan Tuğal is Associate Professor of Sociology and author of Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism (Stanford University Press, 2009) and The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism (Verso, 2016)
Raka Ray is Professor of Sociology and author of Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India (University of Minnesota, 1999) and Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity and Class in India, co-authored with Seemin Qayum (Stanford University Press, 2009)
Paul Pierson is Professor of Political Science and author of Off-Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy, co-authored with Jacob Hacker (Yale University Press 2005) and Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, co-authored with Jacob Hacker (Simon and Schuster 2010).
Arlie Hochschild is best known for her contributions to the domestic division of labor (The Second Shift), emotional labor (The Managed Heart), the rationalization of the home (Time Bind), the commodification of private life (The Commercialization of Intimate Life, The Outsourced Self). In her latest book, Strangers in Their Own Land, Hochschild takes her notion of “feeling rules” to Louisiana, exploring the emotional foundations of right wing politics (The Tea Party and support for Donald Trump) by studying divergent responses to one of the most pressing issues facing the region – environmental pollution. On the basis of her fieldwork, conducted between 2011 and 2016, Hochschild advances the “deep story” of supporters of the American right: “…the shifting moral qualifications for the American Dream had turned them into strangers in their own land, afraid, resentful, displaced, and dismissed by the very people who were, they felt, cutting in line.”
Cihan Tuğal is Associate Professor of Sociology and author of Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism (Stanford University Press, 2009) and The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism (Verso, 2016)
Raka Ray is Professor of Sociology and author of Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India (University of Minnesota, 1999) and Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity and Class in India, co-authored with Seemin Qayum (Stanford University Press, 2009)
Paul Pierson is Professor of Political Science and author of Off-Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy, co-authored with Jacob Hacker (Yale University Press 2005) and Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, co-authored with Jacob Hacker (Simon and Schuster 2010).
The China Boom:
Why China Will Not Rule the World
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Why China Will Not Rule the World
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Ho-fung Hung is Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He will present his book The China Boom: Why China will not Rule the World with responses from Tom Gold, You-tien Hsing and Gillian Hart.
Ho-fung Hung is the author of the award-winning book, Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty (Columbia University Press, 2011). He has written widely about the history of China as well as its place in the world today. In his latest book, China Boom, Hung traces the history of capitalism in China, contesting conventional Weberian theses by showing how its origin lies in a century-long process of primitive accumulation that laid the basis of its dynamic capitalism today. Far from challenging the present world order, capitalism in China is an effective prop of US hegemony; and far from saving capitalism its export driven logic threatens to unravel within China and create havoc in the rest of the world. Magnificent in its historical scope China Boom paints an inglorious future – unless China can manage to reconstruct the internal structure of its economy. Ho-fung Hung is a leading representative of a new generation of world systems analysts who focus on the complex intersection of national contradictions and global dynamics.
Tom Gold is Professor of Sociology and author of State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle (Sharpe, 1986) and many articles on civil society in China.
You-tien Hsing is Professor of Geography at Berkeley and author of Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection (Oxford, 1998) and The Great Urban Transformation: The Politics of Land and Property in China (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Gillian Hart is Professor of Geography at Berkeley and author of Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa (University of California Press, 2002) and Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony (University of Georgia Press, 2014).
Excerpts from China Boom can be found here: Preface, Introduction, Chapters Three, Five, & Conclusion.
Undoing the Demos:
Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
February 17, 2016
Wendy Brown is the Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley. She will present her book, Undoing the Demos, with responses from Marion Fourcade, Leslie Salzinger and Cihan Tuğal.
Wendy Brown’s incisive interventions in politics and political theory have appeared in a series of books that critically engage the major issues of our time. Her latest book, Undoing the Demos, builds on Foucault’s lectures on the Birth of Biopolitics. It charts the rise of neoliberal rationality that now invades every sphere of human existence. Brown is particularly concerned with the way this “economic” rationality replaces democratic principles, practices and imaginaries with anti-democratic ones. Democratic terms of freedom, equality, citizenship and popular sovereignty are trampled by a governing order of reason emphasizing human capital appreciation, competition, the legitimacy of market inequalities and the sovereignty of the market. In addition to its theoretical claims, Undoing the Demos details specific transformations of governance, rights, and democratic education by neoliberal reason.
Marion Fourcade is Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s (Princeton University Press, 2009).
Leslie Salzinger is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and author of Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico’s Global factories (University of California Press, 2003).
Cihan Tuğal is Associate Professor of Sociology and author of Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism (Stanford University Press, 2009).
Wendy Brown’s incisive interventions in politics and political theory have appeared in a series of books that critically engage the major issues of our time. Her latest book, Undoing the Demos, builds on Foucault’s lectures on the Birth of Biopolitics. It charts the rise of neoliberal rationality that now invades every sphere of human existence. Brown is particularly concerned with the way this “economic” rationality replaces democratic principles, practices and imaginaries with anti-democratic ones. Democratic terms of freedom, equality, citizenship and popular sovereignty are trampled by a governing order of reason emphasizing human capital appreciation, competition, the legitimacy of market inequalities and the sovereignty of the market. In addition to its theoretical claims, Undoing the Demos details specific transformations of governance, rights, and democratic education by neoliberal reason.
Marion Fourcade is Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s (Princeton University Press, 2009).
Leslie Salzinger is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and author of Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico’s Global factories (University of California Press, 2003).
Cihan Tuğal is Associate Professor of Sociology and author of Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism (Stanford University Press, 2009).
Seeing Like a Rover:
How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars
October 28, 2015
Janet Vertesi is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She will present her new book, Seeing like a Rover, with responses from John Lie, Roi Livne and Massimo Mazzotti.
In her stunning book, Seeing Like a Rover, Janet Vertesi observes and participates in the Mars Exploration Mission. For two years, and at multiple sites and different space centers, she follows the dramatic exploration of Mars by the robots Spirit and Opportunity. Her book is a meticulous account of the laborious construction of scientific knowledge – aimed at discovering whether there could have been human life on Mars. The book is replete with magnificent photographs of the Red Planet as seen through the symbiotic eyes of scientists and Rovers. Vertesi describes how the robots became inscribed in the life of the scientists and engineers as a totem, to the point of bodily mimicking, invading of dreams, and governing rituals of interaction. In an elaborate social process that combines multiple disciplines, scientists collectively manufacture the interpretation of images of Mars through the manipulation and calibration of digital data sent back to earth. The consensus science that is won in this way becomes the science of seeing like a rover – a perspective that is ultimately constrained by a series of protocols that determine what passes for science, and thereby adjudicating between successful and failed discoveries. The book raises a myriad questions not just for the conduct of planetary science, but for science in general and for ethnographic social science in particular. Among Professor Vertesi’s other projects are, "Personal Privacy in the Digital Age," "The Social Life of the Spacecraft," and a study of the effects of the London Tube Map on social life.
John Lie is Professor of Sociology at Berkeley and author of Modern Peoplehood and Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity
Roi Livne is a graduate student in the Berkeley sociology department writing a dissertation, Dying, Economized: Palliative Care and the U.S. Moral Economy of Death.
Massimo Mazzotti is Associate Professor of History at Berkeley, Director of the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society, and author of The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God.
In her stunning book, Seeing Like a Rover, Janet Vertesi observes and participates in the Mars Exploration Mission. For two years, and at multiple sites and different space centers, she follows the dramatic exploration of Mars by the robots Spirit and Opportunity. Her book is a meticulous account of the laborious construction of scientific knowledge – aimed at discovering whether there could have been human life on Mars. The book is replete with magnificent photographs of the Red Planet as seen through the symbiotic eyes of scientists and Rovers. Vertesi describes how the robots became inscribed in the life of the scientists and engineers as a totem, to the point of bodily mimicking, invading of dreams, and governing rituals of interaction. In an elaborate social process that combines multiple disciplines, scientists collectively manufacture the interpretation of images of Mars through the manipulation and calibration of digital data sent back to earth. The consensus science that is won in this way becomes the science of seeing like a rover – a perspective that is ultimately constrained by a series of protocols that determine what passes for science, and thereby adjudicating between successful and failed discoveries. The book raises a myriad questions not just for the conduct of planetary science, but for science in general and for ethnographic social science in particular. Among Professor Vertesi’s other projects are, "Personal Privacy in the Digital Age," "The Social Life of the Spacecraft," and a study of the effects of the London Tube Map on social life.
John Lie is Professor of Sociology at Berkeley and author of Modern Peoplehood and Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity
Roi Livne is a graduate student in the Berkeley sociology department writing a dissertation, Dying, Economized: Palliative Care and the U.S. Moral Economy of Death.
Massimo Mazzotti is Associate Professor of History at Berkeley, Director of the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society, and author of The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God.
The Scholar Denied:
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
September 30, 2015
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Aldon Morris is the Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He will present his new book, The Scholar Denied, with responses from Chris Muller, Nikki Jones and Jason Ferguson Aldon Morris is best known for his paradigm-changing research on social movements and in particular his prize-winning book, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement that emphasized the organizational and cultural basis of social protest. He is the author of the just-released and long-awaited The Scholar Denied that plots the early history of US sociology as an account of the ascendancy of the Chicago School and the marginalization of the Atlanta School, as represented by a contest between their two leading figures, Robert Park and W.E.B. Du Bois. Morris shows how the alliance of Booker T. Washington and Park pushed Du Bois aside, yet the Atlanta school, nonetheless, persisted through its embeddedness in and support from a variety of community groups. It developed a research program every bit as impressive as the Chicago School, although by no means as well known. Racism within the field of professional sociology, therefore, shaped the rise of Chicago sociology and the evolution of sociology more generally, and, in terms of his accomplishments, W.E.B. Du Bois should rightly be considered the founder of US sociology. Chris Muller is a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow at Columbia University and will be Assistant Professor at Berkeley, beginning, Fall 2016. He is the author of Historical Origins of Racial Inequality in Incarceration in the United States that won the 2015 ASA Dissertation Award. Nikki Jones is Associate Professor in African American Studies at Berkeley and author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner City Violence (2010). Jason Ferguson is a graduate student in the Berkeley sociology department writing a dissertation entitled, Signifying Laws: Regulating Sex and Sexuality in the Global Field of Nations |