Neglected Aspects of the Civil Sphere in Cultural Sociology: Testing the Extensions and Limits of a Concept

Written By Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

We are excited to announce an important session at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), organized by Jean-François Côté and Charles Berthelet. The session is entitled "Neglected Aspects of the Civil Sphere in Cultural Sociology: Testing the Extensions and Limits of a Concept."

Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Location: Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Online
Registration: Required for online access – click HERE for registration

This thematic session, affiliated with the Sociology of Culture section of the CSA, will feature presentations and discussions by:

  • Neil Wegenschimmel (University of Waterloo) - The uncivil sphere: How the digital age is fracturing truth and meaning, and undermining social-civil solidarity

  • Charles Berthelet (École des hautes études en sciences sociales / Université du Québec à Montréal) - Societalization of social problems and objectification of concrete societies: The case of eco-nationalism in Quebec

  • Elliot Fonarev (University of Toronto) - Moral contestation and ways of seeing social crisis, self and other, and civil obligations: a study of Jewish boundary making processes

  • Jean-François Côté (Université du Québec à Montréal) - The transnational and transcultural dimensions of the civil sphere

  • Mervyn Horgan (University of Guelph) - Spheres, Bubbles, Planets: thinking scale, space, and ephemeral effervescence

For more information and to view the full conference program, please visit the CSA Conference Program. We encourage all interested members to attend this session and contribute to the vibrant discussions.

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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