The sixth in a series of conference-book projects to globalize civil sphere theory (CST) is here and will take place on Saturday, October 22, and Sunday, October 23, 2022, at the Humanities Quadrangle, Room 107; Yale University; New Haven, CT.

“Responding to social protest may face state authorities, and especially public security forces, with the difficult task of juggling the preservation of the public order, the need to push back on insurgencies, and the demand to safeguard democratic practices in society. To maintain that tricky balance, authorities need to decipher it. This, however, is less straightforward than it might appear at the first glance.”

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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.

Before there was Covid, there was Populism. It is now difficult to comprehend life before the Coronavirus, which seems to have changed everything, including what sociologists write about, in a remarkably short space of time …

This book describes three impactful cases of political violence that broke out in Mexico in 1994, pointing to an important juncture in Mexican political development. At that point, the patrimonial order centered on the PRI and the Mexican presidency entered….

The Civil Sphere in Canada Conference and Book Project is coming to the University of Guelph, Canada.

In Chicago, on December 21, at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, a panel was held featuring Civil Sphere Theory…

This book is concerned with the role that communication, understood as including both the factual and fictional mass media as well as the performative and visual arts, can play in post-civil war peacebuilding….

Read about the first meeting of the Civil Sphere Working Group in Trento, October, 2021, along with RADICALISM AND THE CIVIL SPHERE: ​A SYMPOSIUM ON BREACHING THE CIVIL ORDER.

View the full program from the first meeting of the Civil Sphere Working Group, held at the University of Trento, October 18-19, 2021