Dylan Riley, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Science & Politics

“Bourdieu’s Sociology: From Degeneration to Reconstruction”
Tuesday, April 2, 4pm, 6203 Social Science

“What is Trump? Fascist Demagogue or Patrimonial Misfit”
Wednesday, April 3, 4pm, 6104 Social Science

Open seminar for public, students, and faculty
Thursday, April 4, 12:20pm, 8108 Social Science

DYLAN RILEY is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy, Spain, and Romania 1870-1945 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, Verso, 2019). He is also the co-author of a two-volume work with Rebecca Jean Emigh and Patricia Ahmed entitled Antecedents of Censuses: From Medieval to Nation States and Changes in Censuses: From Imperialism to Welfare States (Palgrave 2016). In addition to these books, he has published articles in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Catalyst, Comparative Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Social Science History, The Socio-Economic Review and the New Left Review (of which he is a member of the editorial committee). His work has been translated into German, Russian, and Spanish.

 

READINGS:

Metaphysicking The West

American Brumaire?

Bourdieu’s Class Theory

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