Craig Calhoun- D.Phil.
- University Professor at Arizona State University
Craig Calhoun
- D.Phil.
- University Professor at Arizona State University
Website: https://calhoun.faculty.asu.edu
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This paper assesses the contribution of Billig’s Banal Nationalism arguing that it moved us beyond the dichotomies of civic versus ethnic and patriotism versus nationalism to focus attention on the omnipresence of nations and the question of when they are flagged and unflagged. In acknowledging the importance of these insights, it is also suggested...
In this interview, Craig Calhoun retraces his peculiar trajectory that, from his first interests in realist cinema and anthropology, brought him to become one of the most original contemporary public sociologists. Realist cinema and the art of documentary are not simple occasional curiosities or forms of escapes, but a way to observe and analyze re...
Cosmopolitanism as a privileged style of consumerism is not only inaccessible to most—an old complaint that, as we see here, haunts new cosmopolitanisms—but, as Craig Calhoun explains, it is also incapable of engaging with the ethical and political issues that the new global interconnectedness brings in its wake. And cosmopolitanism as a universali...
Benedict Anderson’s remarkable book Imagined Communities reshaped
the study of nations and nationalism. Strikingly original, it broke
with previous over-emphasis on the European continent and falsely
polarized arguments as to whether nations were always already
in existence or mere epiphenomena of modern states. Imagined
Communities stimulated atte...
El remarcable libro Comunidades imaginadas de Benedict Anderson reconfiguró el estudio de las naciones y el nacionalismo. Sorprendentemente original, rompió con el excesivo énfasis que hasta el momento se ponía en el continente europeo y con los argumentos falsamente polarizados sobre si las naciones existían desde siempre o eran meros epifenómenos...
This discussion forum is based on the roundtable discussion at the 27th Annual Conference of the Society for Advancement of
Socio-Economics (SASE) hosted at the London School of Economics. The discussion presents recent work on capitalism as an evolving
historical formation by Wolfgang Streeck and Craig Calhoun, together with contributions by Briti...
The break-up of the Soviet Union is a key event of the twentieth century. The 39th IIS congress in Yerevan 2009 focused on causes and consequences of this event and on shifts in the world order that followed in its wake. This volume is an effort to chart these developments in empirical and conceptual terms. It has a focus on the lands of the former...
In this interview Craig Calhoun discusses the complex relationship between sociology, national traditions and cultural peculiarities. Calhoun points to the tensions and potential contradictions that arise when sociological concepts that were coined at a specific time and refer to a
specific place are applied to different conditions and contexts. Ot...
The development of institutions and practices of open communication concerning affairs of common interest is basic to democracy. This is analyzed as involving transformations of public space from the Athenian agora to the metaphorical space of electronic communications. These spaces provide for communication among strangers as well as those joined...
The concept of the public sphere refers to the capacity of the members of civil society to coordinate their common affairs through collective discourse which transcends the private interests of each. The concept is associated especially with the theories of Hannah Arendt and Jurgen Habermas. Current work focuses especially on the relationship betwe...
This interview with Professor Craig Calhoun expands on issues of nationalism and cosmopoli-tanism in relation to the question of statelessness. Since the 1990s, Calhoun has worked on nationalism, ethnicity and cosmopolitanism. For Calhoun, nations still matter despite post-national and cosmopolitan elaboration and repudiation of so-called parochial...
The aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis still reverberate throughout the globe. Markets are down, unemployment is up, and nations from Greece to Ireland find their very infrastructure on the brink of collapse. There is also a crisis in the management of global affairs, with the institutions of global governance challenged as never before, acco...
The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at prestigious educational facilities around the world.
Commentators on Craig Calhoun's Tanner Lecture. The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at prestigious educational facilities around the world.
Si les chercheurs en sciences sociales de tous les pays devaient s’unir, au-dela de leurs innombrables differences, quel pourrait etre le sens de leur engagement ? Quelle cause meriterait-elle qu’ils prennent des risques ? La reponse est simple, du moins en theorie. Ce sens, cette cause sont ceux de la verite. La verite sur la vie sociale. Cette re...
Full text available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/48489/
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had a broader theoretical agenda than is generally acknowledged. Introducing this innovative collection of essays, Philip S. Gorski argues that Bourdieu's reputation as a theorist of social reproduction is the misleading result of his work's initial rece...
To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion’s prominence in the contemporary public sphere and its potential contributions to critical thought, Habermas’s engagement with religion has been controversial and exciting, putting much of his own work in fresh perspectiv...
Most versions of cosmopolitanism are contained within liberalism. They are grounded in thinking about individuals — their rights, tastes, and potential travels through the world, and indeed also their ethical obligations. They have much less to say about social transformations that would raise the opportunities and standards of living of the poor,...
Seeking to end international isolation and pursue limited reform, Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi and his son Saif drew British and American social scientists into a diplomatic and public relations project. Contracts with the Monitor Group (and Harvard faculty members) and the London School of Economics (where Saif Qaddafi also studied for a PhD and made a...
The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era—religious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemperance—are presented as mere strands in a unified tapestry of labor and democratic mobilization. Taking...
A Comunicação é o campo mais importante para o estudo de muitas dimensões-chave de mudanças sociais. Esta é a premissa básica deste texto apresentado na conferência de abertura do congresso anual da International Communication Association, em 2011. Ele traz reflexões sobre uma série de questões de identidade, metodologias, fronteiras e caminhos par...
Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders...
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/42586/
As often happens, I submitted my title before I knew what I wanted to talk about. I do want to
speak about communication research as a field, but not only as a field of social science. To try to contain
communication in actually existing social science would be to reduce it in unfortunate ways. But at the
same time, as someone much invested in soci...
Full text available at http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/42621/
"This volume unravels a complex web of connections around the current financial and economic crisis. Among its revelations are: the difficulty of a renewed Keynesian solution because of the gridlock of weak national and transnational institutions with inadequate authority and oversight; the irony that cap-and-trade solutions to environmental issues...
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role doesor shouldreligion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine, Judith Butler explores the potentia...
This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The volume will introduce readers to some of the most compelling new conceptual and theoretical understandings of secularism and the...
The work of Ulrich Beck has been important in bringing sociological attention to the ways issues of risk are embedded in contemporary globalization, in developing a theory of 'reflexive modernization', and in calling for social science to transcend 'methodological nationalism'. In recent studies, he and his colleagues help to correct for the Wester...
:In this article I ask (1) whether the ways in which the early bourgeois public sphere was structured—precisely by exclusion—are instructive for considering its later development, (2) how a consideration of the social foundations of public life calls into question abstract formulations of it as an escape from social determination into a realm o...
Scholars have established that cultural codes and styles of expression in civil society must be recognized as informal mechanisms of exclusion, calling into question the possibility of the Habermasian normative ideal of the public sphere. This article joins theoretical discussions of how to remedy this problem. Going beyond Alexander's model of "mu...
"Secularism is often treated as a sort of absence. It’s what is left if religion fades. It’s the exclusion of religion from the public sphere but somehow in itself neutral. This is misleading. We need is to see secularism as a presence. It is something, and therefore in need of elaboration and understanding. It shapes not only religion but also cul...
“What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?” This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on the experience of transcendence that scientistic explanati...
In this article the author examines aspects of academic freedom and the central public mission in the university. The central focus of the article is on the freedom of scholars from censorship or from attempts to exert a degree of control over their researches. In addition, the article examines the role of the university functioning as an instituti...
1. The theme runs through Dewey’s work; see among many, Experience and Nature.
2. A variety of other questions are raised by extending tenure to more and more faculty, at earlier points in their careers. This has, ironically, encouraged universities to look for ways to avoid the tenure track. Many institutions rely more and more on term appointment...
