Book Symposium: The Civil Sphere in East Asia

We invite you to check out the Spring 2020 Culture Section Newsletter vol. 32 issue1 for the book symposium on The Civil Sphere in East Asia, among many other great contributions.

The Civil Sphere in East Asia

Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, Connecticut, David A. Palmer, The University of Hong Kong, Sunwoong Park, Korea National University of Education, Agnes Shuk-mei Ku, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date: February 2019
Print publication year: 2019
Online ISBN: 9781108698368
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108698368

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Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is associate professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), and Faculty Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology. She is a cultural sociologist in the tradition of the Strong Program, who focuses on the meaning-making process in her research on international migration. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A., M.Phil., and PhD from Yale University. Recent books include The Courage for Civil Repair: Narrating the Righteous in International Migration (with Carlo Tognato and Jeffrey C. Alexander, eds., Palgrave, 2020) and Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice (with Victoria Shmidt, Routledge 2021), Besides civil sphere theory, her current research focuses on in-depth cultural sociological analysis and reconstruction of public issues such as perceptions of migration, and the cultural sociology of conspiracy theories.

https://www.cstnetwork.org/jaworsky-bio
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