Social Theory Now

“This book is quietly doing something remarkable, maybe even radical. . .Social Theory Now is more of an ambitious project of redefinition than its own editors may lead us to believe.” –Paul Lichterman, Perspectives

CONTRIBUTORS

Daniel Winchester, Dorit Geva, Ho-Fung Hung, Julian Go, Ivan Ermakoff, Dirk Baeker, Claire Laurier Decoteau, Emily Erikson, Javier Lezaun, Jörg Potthast, Neil Gross, Zachary Hyde

ABOUT THE CO-AUTHORS

  • Claudio E. Benzecry is associate professor of communication studies and sociology (by courtesy) at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession and the coeditor of Social Theory Now, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

  • Monika Krause is associate professor in sociology at the London School of Economics. She is the author of The Good Project: Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason and coauthor or coeditor of Social Theory Now, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. She is the winner of the 2019 Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting in Sociology. 

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