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3450 - Social Theory and Social Decay: Illiberalism, Autocracy, Violence
Mon, August 12, 2:30 to 4:10pm, Sheraton New York, Floor: Lower Level, ChelseaSession Submission Type: Invited Session
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This panel will be devoted to analyzing the transformation of societies and polities as illiberalism, autocracy and violence take root. Panelists are invited to reflect on how old and new waves of exclusion, destruction and democratic decline throughout the world challenge both existing social theories and the practices and policies these theories might have inspired.
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The Great Refusal: The West, the Rest and the Geopolitics of Homosexuality - Jason L Ferguson, UC Berkeley
Connecting Symbolic to Physical Violence and the Possibilities for Disruption - Aliza Luft, UCLA
The Life and Death of Constitutional Democracy - Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University
Illiberal Attacks on the University: Political Repression of Higher Education 1975-2018 - Evan Schofer, University of California, Irvine; John W. Meyer, Stanford University; Julia Lerch, University of California, Irvine