The organizing committee for the second meeting of the Civil Sphere Theory Working Group is pleased to announce that our meeting will be held on October 18-19, 2023, in Heidelberg, Germany!

The organizing committee for the second meeting of the Civil Sphere Theory Working Group is pleased to announce that our meeting will be held on October 18-19, 2023, in Heidelberg, Germany!

“With eSports and video games rapidly gaining popularity, we are witnessing a rise of semi-autonomous gaming communities. I propose using Alexander’s civil sphere theory and my concept of the gaming sphere to understand the dynamics of the meaning-making processes herein. I ask: why did the Blitzchung controversy spark such outrage?”

Ondřej Klíma

Jeffrey Alexander hosted a group of scholars on October 22 and 23, 2022 at Yale University to workshop their chapters for the forthcoming volume, The Civil Sphere in India (Polity Press).

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.”

Carlo Tognato

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.