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Migration

Social Research on Exile

Banishment, “refugeedom,” and the political problem of our time

September 4, 2024 • by Social Research

In the latest issue of Social Research (Vol. 92, No. 1), scholars explore the nature of exile. Some essays reflect on exile forced by war and political persecution, others on the difference between being an exile and being a refugee. TABLE OF CONTENTS Avishai Margalit, "Internal Exile and Politics"This essay has two ...

Politics

Social Research at 90

Announcing the Spring 2024 issue

April 26, 2024 • by Social Research

The Spring 2024 issue of Social Research marks the 90th anniversary of Social Research. The Spring 2024 anniversary issue reprints articles that have appeared in Social Research over the last 20 years. ...

Genocide

Preventing Genocide

Large-scale killings of identity groups do not happen overnight

February 14, 2024 • by Kerry Whigham

An increasing number of scholars and practitioners are advocating for new ways of understanding and approaching atrocity prevention. ...

Politics

Social Research Introduces “Frontiers of Social Inquiry”

Animal politics, climate governance, and more

January 24, 2024 • by Social Research

The Winter 2023 of Social Research, “Frontiers of Social Inquiry,” explores new and newly foregrounded areas of research and scholarship such as memory studies, inequality, race, and climate....

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What, If Anything, Do Populism and Conspiracy Theories Have to Do with Each Other?

Why “powerless” populists suggest conspiracy

November 15, 2022 • by Jan-Werner Müller

The following is an excerpt from an essay first published in Social Research: An International Quarterly. It is part of the journal’s issue Conspiracy Thinking. Populist parties that do not do well at the polls have to face an obvious contradiction: How can it be that the populists are the people’s only morally ...

<strong>What, If Anything, Do Populism and Conspiracy Theories Have to Do with Each Other?</strong>

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The Path from Conspiracy to Ungoverning

Delegitimating democratic foundations

November 14, 2022 • by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum

Conspiracism, in sum, attacks the legitimacy of the two foundations that make democracy work: knowledge-producing institutions and regulated political rivalry. Because these are the very institutions that bring pluralism into political life, they must be delegitimated by those who claim to own reality and brook no contradiction. ...

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Conspiracy Thinking, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

November 10, 2022 • by Social Research

The Fall 2022 issue of Social Research tackles the subject of conspiracy thinking, from ungoverning to elective affinity....

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Books That Matter II, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its last issue

July 20, 2022 • by Social Research

The current issue of Social Research is based not on a special theme but rather on the conviction that words matter, books and ideas matter—and some books, special ones, deeply affect our lives and how we think and what we think about. To bring home this perhaps trivial truism—that books ...

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Hospitality, The New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

May 17, 2022 • by Social Research

The current issue of Social Research on hospitality, a subject that is intimately connected to that of xenophobia, was inspired by the compelling and fruitful suggestions of my friend and colleague, Polish philosopher Tomasz Kitlinski. It is a subject that lies at the heart of many of the problems besetting ...

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Loneliness, The New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

February 7, 2022 • by Social Research

time of social distancing: a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the latest issue of Social Research engages itself with a reconsideration of the ideas about loneliness in American Culture. The literature explores the concept of loneliness, as is present in a number of notable books: David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd; ...

Loneliness, The New Issue of <em>Social Research</em>

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Changing Social Norms

An Introduction to Social Research Spring 2018 edition

June 5, 2018 • by Arien Mack

Since Social Research is a quarterly journal and each of its issues is focused on a single theme, we must plan long in advance of publication and invite authors a year or two before an issue appears. As a consequence, we cannot hope to be timely, although sometimes -- almost by chance ...