50664 - Theorizing Crisis (Co-sponsored by Theory Section)

Description

This is a session sponsored by the Comparative Historical Sociology and Theory Sections. We welcome papers that address the role of economic, political, or ecological crises in historical and comparative perspective. We encourage innovative approaches that bridge historical analysis with sociological theory – including but not limited to Marxist crisis theory, Gramscian notions of organic crisis, conjunctural theory, world-systems approaches, postcolonial theory, and discursive or cultural theories of crisis – to illuminate the nature and dynamics of crises across different historical and geographic contexts. Submissions may address topics such as: crises as rupturing events, temporalities of social change, crises as political opportunities, among others.

Sub Unit

• Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology / Theorizing Crisis (Co-sponsored by Theory Section)

Presider

• Liza Weinstein, Northeastern University

Individual Presentations

• A Legacy of Displacement: Underlying Historical Propulsions of Guatemalan Migration - Matthew Blanton, University of Texas-Austin

• Interstitial Crisis in India: Towards a Theory of Crisis from the Global South - Smriti Upadhyay, Dartmouth College

• Rethinking Crisis Narratives & Epistemes in Theorizing Crises & The Everyday in Lebanon - Mona Khneisser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• The Great Leap Famine and China's Rural Politics - Fei Han, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Session Organizers

• Cedric de Leon, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Claire Laurier Decoteau, University of Illinois-Chicago