This article reviews how major theorists of nationalism – from Ernest Renan to Benedict Anderson – have tried to come to grips with the puzzle that Swiss nationalism and the Swiss state present in view of the monoethnic states that surround it. I will argue that this puzzle disappears when assuming a political sociology perspective that highlights the networks of political alliances underlying ...

POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY IS DEAD. The old kind, anyway. What counted as political sociology in the past just is not practiced anymore. Generalizing wildly, political sociology used to be the study of how voters, classes, movements, parties, and so on influenced the state—be it political leaders, policy, administration, and so forth. In Canada, this kind of political sociology was represented by both...

In this article, I address the ways in which debates liberal, (post)Marxist and postmodernist social theory have remoulded readings of emancipation – how these reformulations affected organisation emancipatory struggles by political parties movements. focus on three conceptual ambiguities that spurred theoretical disputes restructured organisational imaginations emancipation: who might struggle...

The Istanbul Policy Center-Sabanci University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative organized a seminar entitled “After the Paris Treaty: Anti-coal Struggles in Turkey” by Bengi Akbulut (Political Economist, Member of Political Ecology Working Group and Ekoloji Kolektifi) on Thursday, March 31, 2016. This event was convened by 2015/16 Mercator-IPC Fellow Hande Paker. It was aimed at exploring current an...

the state. Caring for the poor in hospitals and during home visits, individual physicians since the Enlightenment got involved in political reform movements, joining their voices to describe the evils of urbanization and industrialization. Other work has exposed the recent political fortunes of the medical profession itself and its struggles to achieve a healing monopoly. As the Porters point o...

During the 1980s and 1990s, important legislative, judicial, and diplomatic initiatives emanated from the United States, strengthening patent and copyright enforcement systems both domestically and in the broader world economy. The political influences that led to these changes are interesting in their own right. Even more interesting, however, is the fact that governmental emphasis on patent s...

Research on work-family conflict has focused on individuals, and little is known as to how spouses perceive each other’s work-family conflict and how inaccuracies of such perceptions relate to relationship quality. Using a national sample of dual-earner married and cohabiting couples (N = 545), we found that over half of spouses overestimate or underestimate each other’s work-family conflict. H...

This article explores the politics of transnational fishers' movements, setting out to understand why and how they contest seek influence global fisheries. It focuses on two movements representing small-scale fishers, World Forum Fisher Peoples Fish Harvesters Workers, aiming link such more directly with academic political debates. The analysis is structured around three connected spheres: enga...