Rogers Brubaker's research while affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles and other places
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Publications (44)
Populist protests against Coronavirus-related restrictions in the US appear paradoxical in three respects. Populism is generally hostile to expertise, yet it has flourished at a moment when expertise has seemed more indispensable than ever. Populism thrives on crisis and indeed often depends on fabricating a sense of crisis, yet it has accused main...
Populist protests against Coronavirus-related restrictions in the US appear paradoxical in three respects. Populism is generally hostile to expertise, yet it has flourished at a moment when expertise has seemed more indispensable than ever. Populism thrives on crisis and indeed often depends on fabricating a sense of crisis, yet it has accused main...
Digital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. In addition to recasting social interaction, culture, economics, and politics, it has profoundly transformed the self. It has created new ways of being and constructing a self, but also new ways of being constructed as a self from the outside, new ways of being configured, represented, and g...
This chapter discusses how to name, characterize, and explain the European and North American populist conjuncture. It builds on the well‐established discursive and stylistic turn in the study of populism, as well as on the literature on repertoires of political contention and the broader literature on repertoires in the sociology of culture. The c...
Este artigo analisa os usos do conceito de “identidade” e suas múltiplas significações na produção sociológica e antropológica. Como uma categoria de prática e de análise, “identidade” pode significar demasiadamente muito, demasiadamente pouco ou nada. Realizamos, então, um balanço teórico e conceitual dos usos de “identidade” e sugerimos que este...
Few social science categories have been more heatedly contested in recent years than ‘populism’. One focus of debate concerns the relation between populism and nationalism. Criticising the tendency to conflate populism and nationalism, De Cleen and Stavrakakis argue for a sharp conceptual distinction between the two. They situate populist discourse...
It is a commonplace to observe that we have been living through an extraordinary pan-European and trans-Atlantic populist moment. But do the heterogeneous phenomena lumped under the rubric “populist” in fact belong together? Or is “populism” just a journalistic cliché and political epithet? In the first part of the article, I defend the use of “pop...
Son on yıldır ‘diyaspora’ teriminin kullanımının artmasıyla birlikte anlamı da çeşitlilik kazanmıştır. Bu makale, diyasporanın anlamsal, kavramsal ve disipliner alandaki yerini araştırmakta; diyasporanın temeli olarak anlaşılmaya devam eden üç ana unsuru analiz etmekte; diyaspora kuramcılarının bakış açısında köklü bir kayma ve toplumsal dünyada te...
This paper argues that the national populisms of Northern and Western Europe form a distinctive cluster within the wider north Atlantic and pan-European populist conjuncture. They are distinctive in construing the opposition between self and other not in narrowly national but in broader civilizational terms. This partial shift from nationalism to “...
This article treats the pairing of “transgender” and “transracial” in the intertwined discussion of Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal as an intellectual opportunity rather than a political provocation. I situate the Dolezal affair in the context of the massive destabilization of long taken-for-granted categorical frameworks, which has significantly...
This paper seeks to develop a nuanced and qualified account of the distinctive ways in which religion can inform political conflict and violence. It seeks to transcend the opposition between particularizing stances, which see religiously informed political conflicts as sui generis and uniquely intractable, and generalizing stances, which assimilate...
Through what political, economic, cultural and social processes is difference transformed into inequality? Specifically, how are linguistic and religious pluralism implicated in the production and reproduction of inequality? I consider the political rules that privilege some languages and religions and disprivilege others; the processes that confer...
This article reflects critically on the study of Muslims in European countries of immigration. ‘Muslim’ is both a category of analysis and an increasingly salient – and contested – category of social, political and religious practice. The traffic between categories of analysis and categories of practice makes it important for scholars to adopt a cr...
Language and religion are arguably the two most socially and politically consequential domains of cultural difference in the modern world. Yet there have been very few efforts to compare the two in any sustained way. I begin by aligning language and religion, provisionally, with ethnicity and nationhood, and by sketching five ways in which language...
Building on recent literature, this article discusses four ways of studying the relationship between religion and nationalism. The first is to treat religion and nationalism, along with ethnicity and race, as analogous phenomena. The second is to specify ways in which religion helps explain things about nationalism - its origin, its power or its di...
This paper analyses Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan as nationalizing states, focusing on four domains: ethnopolitical demography, language repertoires and practices, the polity and the economy. Nationalizing discourse has figured centrally in these and other ‘post-multinational’ contexts. But nationalizing projects and processes have differ...
This paper examines changing German and Korean policies towards transborder coethnics (Germans in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and Koreans in Japan and China) during the high Cold War and post-Cold War eras. The paper contributes to the emerging literature on transborder forms of membership and belonging by highlighting and explainin...
This paper considers Charles Tilly as an important but underappreciated theorist of nationalism. Tilly's theory of nationalism emerged from the "bellicist" strand of his earlier work on state-formation and later incorporated a concern with performance, stories, and cultural modeling. Yet despite the turn to culture in Tilly's later work, his theory...
The politics of belongingpolitical struggles about the membership status of populations both within and outside the geographical confines of particular nation-statesderive from four conditions: (1) the migration of borders over people, (2) the deep and enduring inequalities between mainstream and minority populations, (3) the persisting legacies of...
Die Verwendung des Konzepts ‚Diaspora‘ hat im Laufe des vergangenen Jahrzehnts deutlich zugenommen. Als Folge dieser Entwicklung
wurde der Bedeutungsgehalt von ‚Diaspora‘ in unterschiedliche Richtungen ausgeweitet.
This article argues that the massive differentialist turn of the last third of the twentieth century may have reached its peak, and that one can discern signs of a modest "return of assimilation". The article presents evidence of this from the domain of public discourse in France, public policy in Germany, and scholarly research in the US. Yet what...
This article traces the contours of a comparative, global, cross-disciplinary, and multiparadigmatic field that construes ethnicity, race, and nationhood as a single integrated family of forms of cultural understanding, social organization, and political contestation. It then reviews a set of diverse yet related efforts to study the way ethnicity,...
As the use of 'diaspora' has proliferated in the last decade, its meaning has been stretched in various directions. This article traces the dispersion of the term in semantic, conceptual and disciplinary space; analyses three core elements that continue to be understood as constitutive of diaspora; assesses claims made by theorists of diaspora abou...
This interdisciplinary collection addresses the position of minorities in democratic societies, with a particular focus on minority rights and recognition. For the first time, it brings together leading international authorities on ethnicity, nationalism and minority rights from both social and political theory, with the specific aim of fostering f...
Treating nationhood as a political claim rather than an ethnocultural fact, this paper asks how "nation" works as a category of practice, a political idiom, a claim. What does it mean to speak " in the name of the nation"? And how should one assess the practice of doing so? Taking issue with the widely held view that " nation" is an anachronistic a...
This article identifies an incipient and largely implicit cognitive turn in the study of ethnicity, and argues that it can be consolidated and extended by drawing on cognitive research in social psychology and anthropology. Cognitive perspectives provide resources for conceptualizing ethnicity, race, and nation as perspectives on the world rather t...
Work on ethnic and nationalist violence has emerged from two largely nonintersecting literatures: studies of ethnic conflict and studies of political violence. Only recently have the former begun to attend to the dynamics of violence and the latter to the dynamics of ethnicization. Since the emergent literature on ethnic violence is not structured...
L'annee 1998 a ete marquee par de nombreuses commemorations de la Revolution de 1848 en Europe centrale. Les AA. se penchent sur le sens de ces commemorations pour la memoire sociale et personnelle des peuples de Hongrie, Slovaquie et Roumanie, sur leurs pratiques et sur l'utilisation du passe pour servir les ideologies du present
This paper offers a critical analysis of ‘groupism’ and suggests alternative ways of conceptualizing ethnicity without invoking the imagery of bounded groups. Alternative conceptual strategies focus on practical categories, cultural idioms, cognitive schemas, discursive frames, organizational routines, institutional forms, political projects, and c...
Beyond «Identity».
«Identity» has become a central, indeed inescapable term in the social sciences and humanities. We argue that the term tends to mean too much (when understood in a strong sense), too little (when understood in a weak sense), or nothing at all (because of its sheer ambiguity). We take stock of the conceptual and theoretical work «...
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"This article addresses a... neglected, link between migration and ethnicity or nationality in Europe. It explores migrations of ¿ethnic unmixing' or ¿ethnic affinity'. Ethnic unmixing and ethnic affinity have somewhat different connotations and call attention to two distinct respects in which ethnicity may figure in such migrations: (1) as a push...
Craig Calhoun rightly, and eloquently, criticizes the impoverished sociology on which much contemporary political and moral theory is built. He focuses on the deficiencies of cosmopolitan theory, and notably on the individual-ist social ontology that implicitly or explicitly underlies much cosmopolitan theorizing. Calhoun also notes in passing some...
As the use of 'diaspora' has proliferated in the last decade, its meaning has been stretched in various directions. This article traces the dispersion of the term in semantic, conceptual and disciplinary space; analyses three core elements that continue to be understood as constitutive of diaspora; assesses claims made by theorists of diaspora abou...
Citations
... Frustrácia a hnev na opatrenia spojené s uzatváraním sa do súkromia, s obmedzením komunikácie s vonkajším svetom vyvolávali pocit hnevu. Protipandemické opatrenia zvýšili nedôveru v odbornosť, prehĺbili antipatiu k štátnej regulácii a posilnili skepticizmus k nadmernej ochrane štátu (Brubaker 2020). Tieto okolnosti vytvorili predpoklady na prehĺbenie sklonov dôverovať jednoduchým riešeniam zložitého problému, ktoré tak radi predstavujú populisti. ...
... Even though pandemics have always functioned as breeding grounds for incorrect information and conspiracy theories (Schade et al., 2021, p. 140), the Covid-19 pandemic is the first "to hit a digitized and networked society" (Frischlich & Humprecht, 2021, p. 9). Every online user can share scientific information with a broad audience, while expertise becomes hyperaccessible (Brubaker, 2021). As a result, the number, diversity, and quality of communicators and sources beyond established media that supply the public with the latest scientific knowledge regarding Covid-19 has expanded in an alarming fashion. ...
... Thus, Brubaker focuses on the following: "group" seems to be a problemfree, self-evident concept that does not require special analysis or explanation. As a result, we begin to take for granted not only the concept of a group, but also "groups"the imaginary things-in-the-world to which this concept refers (Brubaker 2004). This opinion is also shared by other researchers. ...
... Many commentators have pointed out the issues of digital nudging, mainly the blurring of the line between a benevolent intervention and disciplining (Brubaker, 2020;Sharon, 2016;Valasek, 2022). Such a disciplining use of digital health technologies would undermine the goal of empowerment by bringing about a benevolent paternalism. ...
... We chose the three-dimensional structuration of populism by Brubaker (2017Brubaker ( , 2020 and Yilmaz and Morieson (2022; as the framework for this comparative research. Extending the work of Brubaker (2017;, Yilmaz and Morieson (2022) point out how populists pit "the people" 1 social media posts. ...
... 171). However, what exactly is the relevance of the concept of sociological imagination (Mills, 2000) as an "analytical tool" (Solis-Gadea, 2005, p. 114) in apprehending the social real, even after several transformations from the original social, political, economic and cultural context at the time of this proposal by Charles Wright Mills in 1959(Beamish, 2015Bratton & Gold, 2015;Brubaker & Fernández, 2019;Frade, 2009;Hegeman, 2014;Scanlan & Grauerholz, 2009;Seeger & Davison-Vecchione, 2019;Selwyn, 2015;Solis-Gadea, 2005;Staubmann & Treviño, 2019;Edwards, Housley, Williams, Sloan, & Williams, 2013)? ...
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... Ethnic endogamy has remained a powerful habitus, and a key factor in their permanence as a distinct group with a strong sense of common identity. Most non-Gitanos (Payos or Castellanos, as they are referred to by Gitanos) also rejected marriage with the stigmatized Gitanos (Leblon, 1985, p. 62), but in a tacit way that reflected the asymmetrical nature of this ethnified encounter (Brubaker et al., 2006). Among Payos boundaries seemed more open and marriage has been dominated by homogamic tendencies concerning status, wealth and education. ...
... What we see through a post-imperial lens is the new international norm: two World Wars, the partitions of Palestine, Cyprus, and India, and the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the USSR were all accompanied by migrations of linguistic and ethnic unmixing (Brubaker, 1998). But when you read multilingualism textbooks and handbooks, like The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language (Canagarajah, 2017), you won't find a single word about the twentieth-century expulsions, deportations, population transfers, ethnic cleansing, inter-ethnic warfare, and genocide that un diversified countless polyglot cities with the same ruthless efficiency with which their Catholic majesties and the Inquisition purified Spain between 1492 and 1614. ...
... The expression "anti-establishment parties" refers to a form of political populism whose discursive and stylistic repertoire speaks in the name of "the people" and against the "elites."(Brubaker, 2017) 2 Whereas it is customary to consider the extreme-right positions as closer to anti-governmental positions, this is also the case for the Spanish independentist movements in Catalonia and the Basque Countries, which tend to be stronger within the extreme-left(Rama Caamaño & Casal Bértoa, 2020) ...
... Within the scope of producing a collective identity, the differences -regional, cultural, religious, social, among others -of the communities tend to be annulled, constructing an "ideal type" model for each Diaspora (Noirjean and Vodoz 2009: 15) which, in practice, is far more segmented and plural. In this sense, it is relevant to adopt the perspective of Brubaker (2005: 13) who maintained that "instead of talking about 'a Diaspora' or 'the Diaspora' as an entity, a limited group, an ethnodemographic or ethnocultural fact, it might be more worthwhile, and certainly more accurate, to refer to postures, projects, demands, idiomatic expressions, practices, etc. of the Diaspora" (Brubaker 2017). These may indeed be varied in nature and take on different characteristics, thereby originating the configurations of heterogeneous Diasporas, for example, in accordance with their length of historical presence, their level of spatial dispersion, the intensity of their orientation towards their CoO and the maintenance of clear identity boundaries (Brubaker 2017). ...
