Book Symposium

Written By Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

This symposium is based on an Author Meets Critic Session at the Social Science History Association meetings in November 2021 where Mabel Berezin, Robert S. Jansen, Paul Lichterman, and Ming-Cheng M. Lo share their comments on Alexander’s, Kivisto’s, and Sciortino’s Populism in the Civil Sphere.

The symposium ends with Alexander’s response to the commentaries.

“It is a singular privilege to have distinguished colleagues, expert in shared intellectual endeavors, devote concerted time to evaluating one’s efforts. Deeply appreciating their appreciation of Populism in the Civil Sphere (PCS), I note how carefully they have responded to almost every one of its singular contributors, whom I am confident will share my satisfaction with Robert Jansen’s statement that ‘anyone interested in reflecting in a fresh way on the relationship between populism and democracy would do well to read this book’” (J.C. Alexander).

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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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