Category: Trajectories

Trajectories Vol.29 No.1 (Fall 2017) includes Lachmann and de Leon’s essays on the 50th Anniversary of Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy; Roundtable: On Human Rights Around the World Today;  Essay: Ang on How Comparative Historical Analysis Can Advance Global Development.; Op-Ed Corner: Climate Change Policy.  2017 Section Award Winners; PhDs on the Market and New Publications.

The latest issue of our newsletter – Trajectories Vol.28 No.3 (Spring 2017) – can be accessed here.

This issue features an op-ed corner on European populism with contributions from Mabel Berezin, Dorit Geva, Seán Ó Riain, and Besnik Pula; an author-meets-critics special feature on Rebecca Jean Emigh, Dylan Riley, and Patricia Ahmed’s two-volume How Societies and States Count with contributions from Daniel Hirschman, Mara Loveman, G. Cristina Mora, Jacob Foster, Tong Lam, Corey Tazzara, Jean-Guy Prévost, and Emily Klancher Merchant; an author-meets-critics feature on Julian Go’s Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory with contributions from Aldon Morris, Zine Magubane, and Marco Garrido; an author-meets-critics feature on Josh Pacewicz’s Partisans and Partners with contributions from Elizabeth Popp Berman and Michael McQuarrie; a spotlight on the section’s Carbon Tax and Tax Reform problem-solving working groups; and new member publications and section news.

This issue features remarks from the 2017 Gaidar Economic Forum on “Global Transformation in the Context of Historical Sociology” by Georgi Derluguian, Wolfgang Streeck, Ho-Fung Hung, Mishaal Al-Gergawi, and Monica Prasad. The printed version of their remarks first appeared on our section’s blog, Policy Trajectories, edited by Fiona Greenland. (http://policytrajectories.asa-comparative-historical.org/); a book symposium on Ho-Fung Hung’s China Boom (Columbia University Press) with comments from Jack Goldstone, Richard Lachmann, James Mahoney, Dingxin Zhao, and a reply from Ho-Fung Hung; a conference report from Laura Nelson and Kim Voss on “Digitized (Big) Data and Comparative Historical Sociology” with essays by Charles Seguin, Bart Bonikowski, Christopher Muller, and Laura Nelson; an op-ed corner on “Trump, Trade, and Economic Nationalism” organized by Victoria Reyes and with contributions from Peter Evans, Jon Shefner, and Francesco Duina; a spotlight organized by Marilyn Grell-Brisk on the section’s working group on “Terrorism”; and a tribute to William H. McNeill(1917-2016)  with contributions from David Christian and Patrick Manning.

Trajectories Vol 28 No 2 (Winter 2017) can be accessed from here.

This issue features a letter from our new chair, Kim Voss; a book symposium on Jonathan Wyrtzen’s Making Morocco (Cornell University Press) with comments from George Steinmetz, Julian Go, Mary Lewis, Mounira Maya Charrad, and a reply from Johnathan Wyrtzen; a book symposium on Caroline Lee’s Do-it-Yourself Democracy (Oxford University Press) with comments from Lyn Spillman, Margaret O’Mara, Philip Lewin, William Hoynes, and a reply from Caroline Lee; a book symposium on Martin Ruef’s Between Slavery and Capitalism (Princeton University Press) with comments from Tera Hunter, Amy Kate Bailey, and a reply from Martin Ruef; an op-ed corner on “Understanding Trump’s Election” organized by Victoria Reyes and with contributions from Barry Eidlin, Marcus Anthony Hunter, and Stephanie Mudge; an Identities essay by Harold Kerbo; a tribute to Georges Balandier (1920-2016) written by George Steinmetz; a policy brief on the constitutional crisis in Poland by Iga Kozlowska (organized by Natalia Forrat and Jensen Sass); and a list of new publications by section members as well as other news and announcements.

You can access Trajectories Vol 28 No 1 ( Fall 2016) from here