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Nature and Culture, 2016
Social movements move and grow by autopoesis—by calling their prospective ranks to order using pu... more Social movements move and grow by autopoesis—by calling their prospective ranks to order using public pronouncements replete with consequential assumptions about the world as they see it. In the same way, governing bodies and vested economic interests stake out opposing public positions. In the wake of the crucial international climate negotiations in Paris, December 2015, at which the nations adopted the first truly universal climate treaty, we look back over five years of participatory ethnographic research inside the UN climate talks and the social movements for climate justice, identifying key lifeworld assumptions inscribed in the public position-taking of central economic, public, and political sphere actors. Our findings include grounds for skepticism that UN climate policy can transcend the power of the fossil fuel companies to attenuate both international ambitions and national contributions to the universal effort, but also an exciting possibility that climate justice phil...
Revolution: critical concepts in political …, Jan 1, 1993
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Jan 1, 2010
On the edges of development: cultural interventions, Jan 1, 2009
… Feminist Journal of …, Jan 1, 2010
Social Forces, Jan 1, 2005
This is perhaps the best work on the Iranian revolution that I have seen, in one way or another b... more This is perhaps the best work on the Iranian revolution that I have seen, in one way or another better than those of Misagh Parsa, Said Amir Arjomand, Mansoor Moaddel, Ervand Abrahamian, or Nikki Keddie, the best English-language social
South Africanizing US Sociology, Jan 1, 2003
Revolution in the making of the modern world: social …, Jan 1, 2008
Latin American Studies Association annual …, Jan 1, 2001
As we enter headlong the era of globalization, the future of revolutions is beginning to receive ... more As we enter headlong the era of globalization, the future of revolutions is beginning to receive sustained scholarly attention. This is an intrinsically creative and speculative sort of work, to be sure, attempting to answer such questions as:
RACE GENDER AND CLASS, Jan 1, 2001
Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Jan 1, 1985
Conflicts and new departures in world society, Jan 1, 1994
The sociology of revolution has come of age in the last two decades, following the seminal work o... more The sociology of revolution has come of age in the last two decades, following the seminal work of Theda Skocpol (1979) on the causes of social revolution in France, Russia, and China. 1 The last fifteen years have seen a number of major comparative contributions on ...
Revolution in the making of the …, Jan 1, 2008
Nature and Culture, 2016
Social movements move and grow by autopoesis—by calling their prospective ranks to order using pu... more Social movements move and grow by autopoesis—by calling their prospective ranks to order using public pronouncements replete with consequential assumptions about the world as they see it. In the same way, governing bodies and vested economic interests stake out opposing public positions. In the wake of the crucial international climate negotiations in Paris, December 2015, at which the nations adopted the first truly universal climate treaty, we look back over five years of participatory ethnographic research inside the UN climate talks and the social movements for climate justice, identifying key lifeworld assumptions inscribed in the public position-taking of central economic, public, and political sphere actors. Our findings include grounds for skepticism that UN climate policy can transcend the power of the fossil fuel companies to attenuate both international ambitions and national contributions to the universal effort, but also an exciting possibility that climate justice phil...
Revolution: critical concepts in political …, Jan 1, 1993
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Jan 1, 2010
On the edges of development: cultural interventions, Jan 1, 2009
… Feminist Journal of …, Jan 1, 2010
Social Forces, Jan 1, 2005
This is perhaps the best work on the Iranian revolution that I have seen, in one way or another b... more This is perhaps the best work on the Iranian revolution that I have seen, in one way or another better than those of Misagh Parsa, Said Amir Arjomand, Mansoor Moaddel, Ervand Abrahamian, or Nikki Keddie, the best English-language social
South Africanizing US Sociology, Jan 1, 2003
Revolution in the making of the modern world: social …, Jan 1, 2008
Latin American Studies Association annual …, Jan 1, 2001
As we enter headlong the era of globalization, the future of revolutions is beginning to receive ... more As we enter headlong the era of globalization, the future of revolutions is beginning to receive sustained scholarly attention. This is an intrinsically creative and speculative sort of work, to be sure, attempting to answer such questions as:
RACE GENDER AND CLASS, Jan 1, 2001
Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Jan 1, 1985
Conflicts and new departures in world society, Jan 1, 1994
The sociology of revolution has come of age in the last two decades, following the seminal work o... more The sociology of revolution has come of age in the last two decades, following the seminal work of Theda Skocpol (1979) on the causes of social revolution in France, Russia, and China. 1 The last fifteen years have seen a number of major comparative contributions on ...
Revolution in the making of the …, Jan 1, 2008