Dan Hirschman, University of Michigan | The eighth Junior Theorists’ Symposium (JTS) was held at the University of California, Berkeley on Friday, August 15th. The one-day conference featured the work of nine junior scholars and three senior discussants: Omar Lizardo (University of Notre Dame), Marion Fourcade (University of California, Berkeley), and Saskia Sassen (Columbia University). As an entry point for novel ideas and a place where sociologists at the earliest stages of their career engage with some of the most prolific and critical theorists in the field, we envisioned JTS as fertile ground for engaging the full spectrum of sociology and for provincializing our contemporary theoretical traditions. In our commitment to preserving JTS as one of the few places where not only junior scholars, but also junior scholarship (half-baked ideas, unfinished pieces of much larger puzzles), receives a public platform, we were particularly interested in selecting papers that were both highly original and at times still in the process of their conceptual development. This year, we wanted to push the boundaries of theory and interrogate how sociologists demarcate sociological “theory” from empirical work and from other theoretical traditions. |
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summer 2022 ContentLetter from the Chair: "Sociology From/Of Latin America"
"Migration Myopias and Insights from the Global South" "Cannibalizing the Northern Environmental Justice Perspective" "Plurinationality as an Idea and a Reality in 21st Century Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile" "Feminism at a Crossroads: Key Takeaways from Latin America" "Debt, Greed, and Disasters: For a Plausible Study of Puerto Rico and its Systemic Risk" "The State of the Canon: Sociological Theory Syllabi in the United States" Emerging Theorist Spotlight: Birgan Gokmenoglu Emerging Theorist Spotlight: Abigail Cary Moore Theory Section Awards Recent Publications EDITORSVasfiye Toprak Archives
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