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CONTENTS Book Symposium Essays News and Announcements Trajectories Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section Vol 27 No 1 · Fall 2015 Section Officers 2015 ASA Conference Report Can Comparative Historical Sociology Save the World? Monica Prasad Northwestern University

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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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    Trajectories Can Comparative Historical Sociology Save the World?

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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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    Trajectories The Cultural Revolution at the Margins

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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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    Trajectories Japan's Long Defeat

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    Trajectories Japan's Long Defeat

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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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    Trajectories Identities

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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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    Trajectories Identities

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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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    Trajectories New Publications

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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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    Trajectories New Publications

    Fall 2015 · Vol 27 · No 1

    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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    Trajectories New Publications

    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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    Trajectories Announcements

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    Awards and Grants

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    Trajectories Announcements

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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

  • 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!