... winner-take-all society . New York: Free Press. Frank, Thomas, and Matt Weiland, eds. 1997 . Commodify your dissent: The business of culture in the new gilded age (salvos from The Baffler) . New York: Norton. Freeman, Richard. 1995 . Are your wages set in Beijing? Journal of Economic Perspectives...

...Partha Chatterjee Copyright © 1990 by the Center For Transnational Cultural Studies 1990 A Response to Taylor’s “Modes of Civil Society” Partha Chatterjee While writers in Eastern Europe have recently appealed to the concept of a...

...Charles Taylor Copyright © 1990 by the Center For Transnational Cultural Studies 1990 Modes of Civil Society Charles Taylor In the last decade or so, people have begun to talk a lot again of civil society.’ They are invoking, of...

...Craig Calhoun Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago 1993 Civil Society and the Public Sphere Craig Calhoun 1n the 1980s, the work of Hungarian and other Eastern European intellectuals was...

... and Postcolonial Geographies in African Narrative” ( Alternation , 2002). Explorations in Animist Materialism: Notes on Reading/Writing African Literature, Culture, and Society...

.... 426 Crimes of Substitution: Detection in Late Soviet Society Serguei Alex. Oushakine In order to appear “accidental,” an element in a work of art must belong to at least two...

... Solidarity of Strangers: Feminism after Identity Politics (1996) as well as the edited volume Cultural Studies and Political Theory (2000). PC 13.2-05 Dean 5/3/01 2:29 PM Page 243 Cybersalons and Civil Society...

... Capitalism.” Comparative Studies in Society and Histroy 36 ( 1 ): 36 -67. Billings , D. 1990. “Religion as Opposition: A Gramscian Analysis.” American Journal of Sociology 96 ( 1 ): 1 -31. Brenner , N. 1993. “The Limits of Civil Society in the Age of Global Capitalism.” M.A...

...Dorothy H. B. Kwek; Robert Seyfert The recent “materialist turn” stresses the fundamental role of nonhumans in the constitution of humans’ social and political life and argues that the inability to grasp their importance dooms normative prognoses for ordering society to ethical, political, and...

...Howard S. Becker Disasters highlight the way societies allocate resources for expected troubles, a more variable process than it might appear. Similar processes occur in the formation of collections, both personal ones such as books and shoes and the more general ones that characterize societies...

...Guy Standing Progressive politics has always been about the struggle to reduce social inequities and inequalities. What takes priority depends on the type of society we live in. Today people in rich countries live in societies that are tertiary, not industrial, in that what they do is largely...

...Michael C. Dawson; Megan Ming Francis This article examines how the racial order in the United States has evolved since the Jim Crow era. Two leading characterizations of the current situation are that we live in a postracial society and that we live in an era best described as the New Jim Crow. We...

... realizing a fully civil society. The essay uses the case of struggles over the redevelopment of Golibar to critically interrogate these arguments. The essay finds that the city’s poor are the social location that continues to sustain the aspiration for an inclusive urbanism and a more civil society. 2013...

...Ursula K. Heise Animated film is one of the principal aesthetic forms through which modern societies engage with the agency of nonhumans and objects. Beyond their particular themes or characters, animated films rely as a matter of principle on setting objects in motion; this principle has close...

...Andrea M. Voyer While contemporary American society is highly segregated and increasingly unequal, there are settings in which typical social divisions do not apply—in principle (if not in practice) neither limiting one’s ability to participate nor shaping one’s power relative to others. This essay...

...Anthony W. Fontes Extortion is the most common of crimes in Central America today and the most despised. As a growing criminal phenomenon, it exemplifies trends prevalent across post–Cold War Latin America as well as other parts of the world. In many societies, the “democratic wave” and the triumph...

... press and the drug dealers has changed over the past years, and how civil society attempts to respond to the violence of the city. Finally, the interview examines Reis's photographs of the carnival in Rio as a different kind of aesthetic rendering of the subjective and collective inventions of the self...

...Harvey Molotch In a wide-ranging interview, Harvey Molotch asks his longtime friend Howard S. Becker (more commonly known as Howie) about his fifty years “in the business” of ethnography, methodology, and “telling about society” as well as his motivations for doing sociology. Becker reflects on his...