The Civil Sphere in Canada

Written By Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

Origins 8 by Morel Morton Alexander (2005)

Hosted by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the College of Social & Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph, and supported by the Yale University, Profs. Jeffrey Alexander (Yale) and Mervyn Horgan (University of Guelph), this is the 7th event to focus on Professor Alexander’s Civil Sphere Theory.

This SSHRC-funded initiative focuses on developing a cross-Canada network of researchers who draw on civil sphere theory to generate meaning-centered analyses of key historical and contemporary transformations in Canadian society. Participants in the conference are working on case studies ranging from the movement for Indigenous self-government and Indigenous-Settler relations to studies of controversies around racism in Quebec, migrant rights, and sexual misconduct in the Canadian cultural industries.

The full schedule can be found HERE.

Supported by a generous grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and by academic partners in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the College of Social & Applied Sciences at the University of Guelph, and the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.

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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