Category: Announcements

Stephan, Rita, and Mounira M. Charrad, eds. Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring. NYU Press, 2020.

Images of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women.

In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women’s political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011. Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including rural women, housewives, students, and artists.

Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first century movement, telling the story of Arab women’s activism.

Here are some recent publications from members of our section:

Charrad, Mounira M., and Nicholas E. Reith. “Local Solidarities: How the Arab Spring Protests Started.” In Sociological Forum, vol. 34, pp. 1174-1196. 2019.

Charrad, Mounira M., and Rita Stephan. “The “Power of Presence”: Professional Women Leaders and Family Law Reform in Morocco.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 27, no. 2 (2020): 337-360.

Charrad, Mounira M.& Amina Zarrugh. 2020. “Women are Complete, not Complements: Terminology in a New Constitution in Tunisia.” Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring,  R. Stephan & M. M. Charrad, eds., New York: New York University Press.

Tubi, Omri. “Kill me a mosquito and I will build a state: political economy and the socio-technicalities of Jewish colonization in Palestine, 1922–1940.” Theory and Society (2020): 1-28.

Plys, Kristin Victoria Magistrelli. Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

In 1947, decolonization promised a better life for India’s peasants, workers, students, Dalits, and religious minorities. By the 1970s, however, this promise had not yet been realized. Various groups fought for the social justice but in response, Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi suspended the constitution, and with it, civil liberties. The hope of decolonization that had turned to disillusion in the postcolonial period quickly descended into a nightmare. In this book, Kristin Plys recounts the little known story of the movement against the Emergency as seen through New Delhi’s Indian Coffee House based on newly uncovered evidence and oral histories with the men who led the movement against the Emergency.

Here are some recent publications from members of our section:

Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2020. “Anti-Impunity Transnational Legal Ordering and Human Rights – Formation, Institutionalization, Consequences, and the Case of Darfur.” In Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Law, edited by Ely Aaronson and Gregory Schaffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 205-233.

Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2020. Chambers, Brooke B., and Joachim J. Savelsberg. “Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing.” In E. Erez & P. Ibarra (eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of International Criminology. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.594

Joachim J. Savelsberg and Amber Joy Powell. 2020 “Politics, Institutions and the Penal State.” The New Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by Thomas Janoski, Isaac Martin, Joya Misra, and Cedric De Leon, Cambridge University Press, pp. 513-537.

Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2020. “The Representational Power of International Criminal Courts.” In Power in International Criminal Justice: Towards a Sociology of International Justice, edited by M. Bergsmo, M. Klamberg, K. Lohne and C. Mahony. Nuremberg Academies, TOAEP, pp. 493-510.

Yohanani, Lior. “Zionist identity and the British Mandate: Palestine’s internment camps and the making of the Western native.” Nations and Nationalism 26, no. 1 (2020): 246-262. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12558

Here are some recent publications from members of our section:

Burchardt, Marian, and Ann Swidler. “Transplanting Institutional Innovation: Comparing the Success of NGOs and Missionary Protestantism in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Theory and Society 49 (2020): 335-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-020-09380-7

Hammer, Ricarda. 2020. Decolonizing the Civil Sphere: The Politics of Difference, Imperial Erasures, and Theorizing from History. Sociological Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/0735275120921215

Luft, Aliza. 2020. Theorizing Moral Cognition: Culture in Action, Situations, and Relationships.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 6:1-15.

Luft, Aliza. 2020. “Religion in Vichy France: How Meso-Level Actors Contribute to Authoritarian Legitimation.” European Journal of Sociology. 1-35.

Luft, Aliza. 2020. “Three Stories and Three Questions about Participation in Genocide.” Journal of Perpetrator Research. 3(1), 196-206.

Singh, Sourabh. 2020. To rely or not to rely on common sense? Introducing critical Realism’s insights to social network analysis. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12241