Michael Burawoy

Public Sociology

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Papers
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Public Sociology, Live!

This experimental course brings public sociologists in different parts of the world into conversations with Berkeley undergraduates. The 12 discussions were video recorded and posted on Berkeley youtube and the ISA website where they were watched and discussed by classes around the world -- Oslo, Tehran, Barcelona, Sao Paulo, Kyiv, and Johannesburg. The latter posted summaries of their discussions on facebook, engendering further discussion about the issues, dilemmas and practice of public sociology in different places. A blog brings all the material together, but you can find all the readings and videos below.

Syllabus / Blog / Facebook

VIDEOS AND READINGS

Michael Burawoy: What is Public Sociology?

• For Public Sociology [2005]

Manuel Castells: The Power of Communication

• Communication Power [2009](Opening, Chapter 1)

Nandini Sundar: Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in India

• Chhattisgarh: The Future of India
• Insurgency, Counter-insurgency, and democracy in Central India
• Vigilantism, Culpability and Moral Dilemmas
• Police States, Anthropology and human Rights
• Interning Insurgent Populations: The Buried Histories of Indian Democracy

César Rodríguez-Garavito: Social Minefields in Latin America

• Ethnicity.gov: Global Governance, Indigenous Peoples, and the Right to Prior Consultation in Social Minefields.

Ramon Flecha and Marta Soler: Overcoming Inequality through Dialogue

• Ramon Flecha & Ignacio Santa Cruz: "Cooperation for Economic Success: The Mondragon Case."
• Aitor Gomez, Lidia Puigvert, and Ramon Flecha: "Critical Communicative Methodology: Informing Real Social Transformation threough Research."

Walden Bello: Between Truth and Power

• Challenges and Dilemmas of the public Intellectual
• The Apple Connection
• Greece: Same tragedy, Different Scripts
• Arab Revolutions and the Democratic Imagination

Karl Von Holdt: Transforming the South African State

• Transforming Hospital Functioning in Johannesburg.

Sari Hanafi: Governing Palestinean Refugee Camps

• Governing Palestinian Refugee Camps in the Arab East
• The Nahr al-Bared camp as a space of exception
• Palestinian refugees in the Arab world: the right to have a right

Michel Wieviorka: The Dilemmas of Sociological Intervention

• Some Considerations after Reading Michael Burawoy's Article: `What is to be Done? Theses on the Degradation of Social Existence in a Globalizing World’
• Racism and Diasporas
• Violence and the Subject

Pun Ngai: Fighting Apple and its Global Supply Chain (Video is not publicly available)

• The Making of a New Working Class? A Study of Collective Actions of Migrant Workers in South China
• Global Capital, the State, and Chinese Workers

Frances Fox Piven: Power from Below

• Can Power from Below Change the World?
• Sociology Needs a Public
• Frances Fox Piven “Defender of the "Poorest of the Poor"
• The Right’s Attack on Frances Fox Piven

Michael Burawoy and Laleh Behbehanian: Conclusion: Dilemmas of Public Sociology