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CONTENTS
Book Symposium
Essays
News and Announcements
TrajectoriesNewsletter of the ASA
Comparative and Historical Sociology SectionVol 27 No 1 · Fall 2015
Section Officers
2015 ASA Conference Report
Can Comparative HistoricalSociology Save the World?
Monica PrasadNorthwestern University
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Jensen SassYale University
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Josh PacewiczBrown University
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Jason JacksonWharton School
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Trajectories The Cultural Revolution at the Margins
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Book Symposium
The Cultural Revolutionat the Margins:Chinese Socialism in CrisisHarvard University Press
Yiching Wu
Testing the boundaries of theCultural Revolution
Joel AndreasJohns Hopkins University
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[Wu] objects to efforts toanalyze the entire movementthrough the lens of instrumentalconcerns. Cultural Revolutionactivists, he rightly argues, werehighly ideological, driven byideas and ideals.
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A Transformational Sociologyof Socialism and China’sCultural Revolution:Reflections on Yiching Wu’sThe Cultural Revolution at theMargins
Michael D. KennedyBrown University
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Although Yiching writes with aGramscian accent, one that isespecially laced with good dosesof Laclau and Mouffe, and a hintof Raymond Williams and KarlPolanyi, I find a moreconventional Marxism returningfrom time to time than I think Iwould myself promote in thesetimes.
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Notes on The CulturalRevolution at the Margins
Marc BlecherOberlin College
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[Wu's] move away from socialscience analysis toward what isessentially narrative historyraises problems, bothanalytically and politically.
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State, IdeologicalTransformation, and theChinese Cultural Revolution:Comments on Yiching Wu’s TheCultural Revolution at theMargins
Xiaohong XuNational University of Singapore
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For Wu, the ideological ruptureonly came when the CulturalRevolution took its course andwas only possible because Maounleashed it from above. Thisinterpretation would deny theagency of Red Guard activists increating that rupture togetherwith Mao and miss thevalorization of charismaticmobilization among studentsthat already preceded the CRand eventually enabled their CRmobilization.
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Response to Critics
Yiching WuUniversity of Toronto
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This book is a history of theCultural Revolution written froma bottom-up perspective, asmuch as an inquiry into itscomplex historical and politicallegacies. The analysis providedin the book makes possible anew understanding of thehistorical meaning and origins ofChinese postsocialism, in that itallows us to interpret China’spost-Mao “reform and openingup” as part of a continuousprocess of ideological andpolitical maneuvers to contain,suppress, and neutralize theprevalent crises that resultedfrom the Cultural Revolution.
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Deliberately leaving thedefinition open, the idea of classthat I deploy in the book owesfar less to orthodox Marxistnotions. Rather, class here refersboth to the various ways inwhich marginalization,disempowerment, anddomination are created andmaintained, and to thediscursive configurations thatgive meanings to fragmentedsocial and economicexperiences.
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...I believe that it is possible toreincorporate social factors backinto a reconstructedinterpretation of CulturalRevolution mass politics that notonly emphasizes contingencyand context, but also takes intoaccount social interests,identities, and structuralrelationships as dynamicallyconstituted.
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Trajectories Japan's Long Defeat
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Essay
Japan’s Long Defeat:War Memory, Cultural Trauma, andEast Asian Politics Today
Akiko HashimotoUniversity of Pittsburgh
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This cacophony of memorynarratives, far apart in moralsentiments and interests,accounts for the disarray in thenation’s representation of itsmeta-history.
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Trajectories Identities
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Essays
Identities
We Were Never ProperlyIntroduced
Colin J. BeckPomona College
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Comparative history was arevelation. I could assembleevidence, but I did not have toend my argument at a table ofregression results. I couldtheorize grandly even whilebeing sensitive to time andplace. I quickly discovered thatthe study of revolution was theplace to unify my variousinterests— movements, politics,and institutions and culture,religion, and ideology, all inglobal and historical context.
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Sarah Quinn
University of Washington
...I left for graduate schooleager to understand not onlyhow the new economy worked,but also to understand whypeople had diverging opinionsabout how the market shouldwork.
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Trajectories New Publications
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New Publications
Articles and Book
Chapters
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New Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Chartering Capitalism:Organizing Markets, States, andPublicsPolitical Power and Social Theory, V29
Emerald Group Publishing, 2015
Emily Erikson (Editor)
The Long Defeat: CulturalTrauma, Memory, and Identity inJapanOxford University Press, 2015
Akiko Hashimoto
Race and the Origins of AmericanNeoliberalismRoutledge, 2015
Randolph Hohle
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The China Boom: Why China WillNot Rule the WorldColumbia University Press, 2015
Ho-fung Hung
Beneath the Surface of WhiteSupremacy: Denaturalizing U.S.Racisms Past and PresentStanford University Press, 2015
Moon-Kie Jung
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Fall 2015 · Vol 27 · No 1
The Idea of Englishness:English Culture, National Identityand Social ThoughtAshgate, 2015
Krishan Kumar
Representing Mass Violence:Conflicting Responses to HumanRights Violations in DarfurUniversity of California Press, 2015
Joachim J. Savelsberg
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Trajectories Announcements
Fall 2015 · Vol 27 · No 1
Call for Proposals
Section News
News and Announcements
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Awards and Grants
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Work in Progress
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Trajectories On the Market
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PhDs on the Market
Aliza LuftUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
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Trajectories On the Market
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PhDs on the Market
Laura K. NelsonUniversity of California, Berkeley
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TrajectoriesComing up inthe next issue of
Can Comparative Historical Sociology Save the World?The debate continues in January
Two new book symposia:What Unions No Longer Do
by Jake RosenfeldExpulsionsby Saskia
Sassen
AndMuchMore!