Sociology for Dark Times

Sanjiv Gupta

Everything all at once: Wars. Pandemics. Climate change. Neoliberalism. Authoritarianism. White supremacy...Every month, I ask a fellow sociologist the following questions: How can we, as sociologists, intervene in this moment, individually or collectively? How has their work changed over the last few years in response to the times? What are their sources of hope for change?

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Sociology for Dark Times

Episodes (9)

Aug 4, 2024 Campus activism across the spectrum. Amy Binder, Johns Hopkins University
Nov 21, 2023 Palestine, Israel and the crisis of the nation state. Stellan Vinthagen, UMass-Amherst
Aug 16, 2023 Relational inequality! Prudence Carter, former ASA President / Brown University

Sociology for Dark Times

Aug 4, 2024
1 hour
48 MB

Over the last few months, students on college campuses all over the world have been protesting the mass slaughter in Gaza. I was one of the majority of faculty at UMass Amherst who supported our students’ encampment, and then opposed our administration’s violent assault on it. In this episode I talk with Amy Binder, whose book with Jeffrey Kidder, The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today (2022) is one of the few analyses of student activism on U.S. college campuses after 2016. Their study is based in flagship stat...

Sociology for Dark Times

Campus activism across the spectrum. Amy Binder, Johns Hopkins University

Sanjiv Gupta

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