The Comparative and Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association promotes sociological research and teaching on cross-national variation and the temporal dimensions of social life.
Announcements
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CHS at ASA 2025
Join us at the ASA annual meeting in Chicago this year! CHS Panels and events are listed below.
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You’re invited! Register for the 2025 Mini-Conference
Under the theme Third Wave, Fourth Wave, Critical Turn? the mini conference will bring together over 40 comparative historical sociologists to consider the sub-discipline’s present and future. Find the full schedule here.
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Call for Submissions for Trajectories (Summer 2025)
The CHS section invites you to share texts that are anchoring your thinking or opening new paths in your reading, writing, and teaching. These may be long-time companions or new arrivals on your summer or year-ahead reading list.
Essays
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Barrington Moore in Delhi? The Political Economy of the Indian Farmers’ Protest
Michael Levien From the summer of 2020 to the fall of 2021, farmers in North India staged one of the largest agrarian protests in the country’s history. The direct impulse for these protests was three farm laws introduced by President Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party…
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The End of an Era?: The Colombian Elections in Retrospect and Prospect
Laura Acosta and Nicolás Torres-Echeverry Colombia is an “orangutan in cutaway,” a stable democracy in perpetual violence, a paradox, many say (Bushnell 1993; Gutiérrez 2014). It is a country that has had one of the oldest electoral democracies in the world and yet it is…
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Comparative Historical Sociology, the Denial of Race, and the Naming of Prizes: A Critique of Skocpol’s Theory of Revolutions
Featured image: Christopher Columbus statue outside the Minnesota State Capitol, toppled by American Indian Movement members on 10 June 2020. Photo: Tony Webster. The American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Comparative Historical Sociology (CHS) section has weathered the George Floyd uprising like most other ASA sections: little…