LIVING SOCIOLOGY 

"Living Theory: Reflections on Four Deacades of Teaching Social Theory," in Constructing Social Research Objects edited by Hakon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg (2021)  

"Antinomian Marxist" (from Alan Sica and Stephen Turner, eds., The Disobedient Generation, 2005)

"Combat in the Dissertation Zone"  (American Sociologist, Summer, 2005)  Portuguese

"Another Thirty Years" (Introduction to the Chinese edition of  Manufacturing Consent, 2005)

"Odyssey of a Marxist Ethnographer" (International Labor and Working Class History, 1996)

CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with Burawoy (Critical Sociology, 2024)

"Sociology Faces the Question of Palestine." (Critical Sociology, 2024)

"Defending Sociology." Protesting the Assault on the University, Miami 3.10.24 

Future of Labor  (Interview with Eleonora de Lucena e Rodolfo Lucena, Brazil, September 12, 2023)   

Du Bois on Race and Class (Interview with C.S. Song, KPFA,  Against the Grain February 14 and February 15, 2023) 

"El marxismo como teoría crítica y programa de investigación Daniel Bensaïd y Michael Burawoy." Paula Varela and Gastón Gutiérrez Rossi  (Capítulo 6, 2022)

UC Faculty Divided Over Graduate Student Strike  (Interview with Nanette Asimov, December 2, 2022)

Why Sociology Matters. (Interview with Laurie Taylor in Thinking Allowed January 19, 2022, BBC4)  

"The Sociological Marxism of Michael Burawoy" by Maciej Gdula (Studia Socjologiczne, 2022 

What's the Point of Sociology if it's not Engaged?  (Interview with Ivica Mladenovic, Institute fror Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade.   English French Spanish, September 30, 2021)   

The State of US Sociology: From Crisis to Renewal (Talk at the American Sociological Association, 2021) 

Dialogue with His Intellectual Opponents. About the Sociological Marxism of Michael Burawoy. Essay by Sebastien Antoine, Cécile Piret et François Rinschbergh, 2021      

The Fate of Trumpism and the Future of Liberal Democracy  (Interview with Dimitris Givis from newspaper Epohi, Greece, January 10, 2021)   English 

Public Sociology and the Pandemic (Interview with Dev Pathak, Delhi 8/2020)

Trump unconsciously leads the transition to a socialist program (Interview with Islam Özkan, Turkey, 6/2020)

Scientists have Obligations to Society  (Interview with Kestas Kirtiklis, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019)    

Manufacturing Consent: A Concern That Lasted 40 Years (Interview with Paula Varela published in New Proposals, Buenos Aires, 2019)

Bourdieu and Marx. Interview C.S. Song (KPFA, Berkeley, 2019)

The Modern Prince and the Sociological Imagination.Conversation with Ricardo Emilio Chesta (Sociologica 2019)

The Future of Sociology (Talk at Zhejiang University, China published in The Paper,  2018)

The Paper (Shanghai, China). Interview with Ren Qiran (2018)

Monitoring of Public Life (Russia) (Interview with Andrei Rezaev, 2018)       

WFHB (Bloomington, Indiana), (These Hollowed Halls:  Business Creep(s) in the University) with Doug Stor (2018)

Mouvements (Belgium) (Between Marxism and Ethnography) with Sébastien Antoine, Cécile Piret and François Rinschbergh (2016)

Against the Grain (KPFA Berkeley) (Maketization and Inequality) with C.S. Soong (2016)

Austrian Broadcasting Corporation with Lukas Wieselberger

Sociologia (Life and Theory Intertwined) withBruno Tripode Bartaquini (2016)

Circuito Acadêmico (Brazil) (2016)

Social Science Bites (Sociology and the Workplace) (London) with David Edmonds (2016)

Ballast (Belgium) with Julien Chanet (2016)

Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil) with Eleonora de Lucena (2015)

Soziologie Magazin (Germany) with Markus Rudolfi (2015)

Movimento (Brazil) (The Games Academics Play) with Guilherme Nothen (2015) [English | Portuguese | Spanish]

Mediapart (French) with Joseph Confavreux (2014)

Social Problems (Bulgaria) with Svetla Koleva (2013)

El Nuevo Dia (Puerto Rico) with Camile Soto (2013)

Ara (Catalonia) with Marc Vidal (2013)

Critique of Political Economy (Iran) with Kevan Harris (2013)

Plural (Brazil) with Gustavo Takeshy Taniguti, Fábio Silva Tsunoda e
Wilson Emanuel Fernandes dos Santos (2012)

Página/12 (Argentina) with Agustín Saavedra (2012)

 Commons: Journal of Social Criticism    (Ukraine) with Volodymyr Ishchenko (2012)  

Socius (Norway) with Ida Kjeøy and Maren Toft (2012)

El Espectador (Colombia) with Cesar Rodriguez Garavito (2012)

Dnevnik (Slovenia) with Uroš Škerl Kramberger (2011)

El Mundo (Spain) with Pablo Rodriguez Suanzes (2011)

Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil) with Eleonora de Lucena (2011)

International Sociology  with Devorah Kalekin-Fishman (2011)

Prague (Czech Republic) with Zuzana Uhde (Czech, 2010)

Русский Журнал (Russian, 2010)

Warsaw (Poland) with Izabela Wagner (2010)

Warsaw (Poland) with Michał Łuczewski (2010)

Zerkalo Nedeli (Ukraine) with Sergyi Kurbatov (2010)

Egyenlítő (Hungary) with Róbert Takács (2010)

Les Mondes du Travail (France) with Stephen Bouquin and Cédric Lomba (2008)

Sociologia (Brazil) with Faoze Chibli (2008)

Interview with Chronis Polychroniou (Athens) (2001) [English]

Symposium: From Manufacturing Consent to Global Ethnography (Contemporary Sociology 2001)  

"Tales of the Kefir Furnaceman" by Jeff Byles (The Village Voice, April 10, 2001) [Portuguese]

 

THOUGHTS ABOUT THOUGHTS 

Preface to Syed Hussein Alatas, Intellectuals in Developing Societies (Reissued by Gerakbudaya in 2025 )  

Introductory Remarks to the Conference on Oliver Cromwell Cox, University of West Indies, Trinidad (2024)  

Preface to the Chinese edition of The Politics of Production. (Horizon Books 2023)  

Vedat Milor: Renaissance Man. Foreword to Vedat Milor, Bringing Back the State - A Comparative Study on Planning and Economic Development in Turkey and France.    (Turkish) (2022)  

Honorary Degree, University of Johannesburg (2022)

Public Sociology under Covid-19. Preface to Covid-19: An Epochal Social Change edited by Paolo Diana, Giovannipaolo Ferrari, Pietro Dommarco (Italian) (2021)

Prologue to Rodolfo Elbert: Uniting What Capital Divides.”  (2020) 

"The Spirit of Erik Wright," Preface to Erik Wright, Stardust to Stardust: Reflections on Living and Dying (Chicago: Haymarket, 2020)

Afterword to Erik Wright, How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Verso, 2019)

"Resolving Polanyi's Paradox," Afterword to Gareth Dale, Christopher Holmes and Maria Markantonatou (editors), Karl Polanyi’s Political and Economic Thought: A Critical Guide. (Agenda Publishers, 2019).

Remembering Erik Wright: Real Utopian in Practice and in Theory (Verso 2019 

"Science and Reflexivity," Foreword to Juan Piovani and Muniz Terra (editors), Condenados a la Reflexividad (2018)

"Third-Wave Marketization," Afterword to Chris Hann and Jonathan Perry (editors), Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism  (Berghahn Books, 2018)

Foreword to Marta Soler, Achieving Social Impact (Brill Publishers, 2017)

Preface to Wiebke Keim, Ercüment Çelik, Christian Ersche and Veronika Wöhrer (eds.), Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences (Ashgate Publishers, 2014)

Foreword to Ariane Hanemaayer and Christopher Schneider (eds.), The Public Sociology Debate (University of British Columbia Press, 2014)

Foreword to Philip Nyden et al., Public Sociology: Research, Action, and Change (Sage Publications, 2012).

Foreword to Sarah Mosoetsa, Eating from One Pot: The Dynamics of Survival in Poor South African Households (University of Witwatersrand Press, 2011)

"A Sociology for South Africa." Foreword to Peter Alexander et al., Globalisation and New Identities: a View from the Middle. Johannesburg (Jacana Press, 2006)

“Another Thirty Years.” Introduction to Taiwanese edition of Manufacturing Consent. (2005)

Foreword to Sheba George, When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration (University of California Press, 2004)