Category: Newsletter

Newsletter, Symposium

Symposium on Social Theory Now: Culture and Theory… again

Originally published in Section Culture: Newsletter of the ASA Culture Section. Winter 2018. Vol. 30 Issue 1. Monika Krause Goldsmiths College Isaac Ariail Reed University of Virginia Claudio Benzecry Northwestern University To discuss a book like Social Theory Now (University of Chicago Press) in the newsletter of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Culture is to raise once more the question of the relationship between social theory … Continue reading Symposium on Social Theory Now: Culture and Theory… again

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Newsletter, Program Profile

Culture Program Profile: UT, Austin’s Urban Ethnography Lab

Originally published in Section Culture: Newsletter of the ASA Culture Section. Winter 2018. Vol. 30 Issue 1. Nino Bariola Katherine Sobering Javier Auyero Ethan works at a luxury hotel in downtown Austin, Texas that caters to the 1%—elites and celebrities that visit for the South by Southwest music festival, the Formula One races, and other mega events. His job isn’t by any means unimportant for the reproduction … Continue reading Culture Program Profile: UT, Austin’s Urban Ethnography Lab

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Interview, Newsletter

Four Questions For Lisa McCormick

Originally published in Section Culture: Newsletter of the Section Culture: Newsletter of the ASA Culture Section. Winter 2018. Vol. 30 Issue 1. Section Chair Ron Jacobs (SUNY Albany) interviews Lisa McCormick (University of Edinburgh), representing the new editorial team at Cultural Sociology Ron Jacobs: How did you become interested in editing Cultural Sociology? Please tell us about some of your own research in cultural sociology. Lisa McCormick: The announcement … Continue reading Four Questions For Lisa McCormick

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Newsletter

Letter From the Chair, Winter 2018

Originally published in Section Culture: Newsletter of the ASA Culture Section. Winter 2018. Vol. 30 Issue 1, pp 1-2. Ron Jacobs, University at Albany, SUNY Fake News. Twitter bots. Troll farms. More than ever, it seems, there is a crisis of confidence permeating the public sphere. How can we participate in discussions about matters of real concern when we have no idea if the person we are … Continue reading Letter From the Chair, Winter 2018

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ASA 2017, Newsletter, Review

Book Review: The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Futures

The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered (edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Elizabeth Butler Breese, Maria Luengo) is an important and necessary addition to cultural sociology. Continuing the call for a more focused and institutionalized media sociology, this volume demonstrates the utility of cultural sociology for media analysis. The wide-ranging pieces in this volume all consider (or reconsider, as the title suggests) the “crisis” of journalism. Continue reading Book Review: The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Futures

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ASA 2017, Newsletter

Book Summary: Memory Activism: Reimagining the Past for the Future In Israel- Palestine

In my new book, Memory Activism: Reimagining the Past for the Future In Israel- Palestine (Vanderbilt UP, 2017), I examine how collective memories of a contested past can be used as a weapon of the weak for political change. The book presents and conceptualizes a surge in memories of a difficult past among civil society and grassroots groups around the world in the last two decades, which I term “memory activism.” Continue reading Book Summary: Memory Activism: Reimagining the Past for the Future In Israel- Palestine

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