Comparative and Historical Sociology at the ASA

The Comparative and Historical Sociology section organized the following exciting events for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the ASA.

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Friday, August 17; 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Joint Reception: Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology and Section on Global and Transnational Sociology

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Sunday, August 19; 8:30am - 10:10am*
Council and Business Meetings

*Note that Council will meet for the first part of this session; the Business Meeting will convene at approximately 9:20am.

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Sunday, August 19; 10:30am - 12:10pm
Modernity Reconfigured: Postcolonial Theory and Comparative-Historical Sociology
Session Organizer: Isaac A. Reed
Session Presider: Monika Krause

• Yael H. Berda, "Administrative Memory and Colonial Legacy: Colonial Emergency Defense Regulations in Israel and India"
  
• Claire Laurier Decoteau, "Historicizing Hybridity: The Field of Health and Healing in South Africa"
  
• Mounira Maya Charrad, "Modernity, Islam and Gender: Post-colonial Perspectives"
  
• Gurminder K. Bhambra, "Rethinking Modernity: A Post-colonial Analysis"

Discussant: Julian Go

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Sunday, August 19; 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Roundtable Session
Session Organizer: Colin J. Beck

Table 01. Comparative and Historical Identities
Table 02. State Formation
Table 03. Asia and Global Dynamics
Table 04. States and Society: Actors and Actions

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Sunday, August 19; 4:30pm - 6:10pm
Party, State, and Society in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Session Organizer and Presider: Cedric de Leon

• Gabriel Hetland, "Parties and the Construction of Real Utopias in Venezuela and Bolivia"
  
• Barry Eidlin, "Repression and Rebirth: Red Scares and the New Left in the United States and Canada, 1946-1972"
  
• Cheol-Sung Lee, "The Origins of Participatory Democracy and Elite Transformism in Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan"
  
• Ateş Altınordu, "The Political Incorporation of Anti-System Religious Parties: The Case of Turkish Political Islam (1994-2011)"

Discussant: Cedric de Leon

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Monday, August 20; 8:30am - 10:10am
Revolutions "New" and "Old"
Session Co-Organizer and Presider: Mounira Maya Charrad
Session Co-Organizer: Danielle Kane

• Elizabeth Lynn Young, "Civic Secession: Framing in Yemen's Southern Mobility Movement"
  
• Colin J. Beck, "Reflections on the Revolutionary Wave in 2011"
  
• Yang Zhang, "Revolutionary Ecology and the Rise of Taiping Rebellion, 1846-1853"
  
• Pavel I. Osinsky, "Similar Beginnings, Different Endings: The Semiabsolutist States and Revolutionary Outcomes in Germany and Russia"

Discussant: Danielle Kane