@binxu013.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at Emory University, USA. 23-24 Fellow at Wiko Berlin. Author of The Politics of Compassion(2017, Stanford), Chairman Mao's Children(2021, Cambridge), The Culture of Democracy (2022, Polity) Personal Website: www.binxu.net
Join us for the Culture Section's inaugural Stuart Hall Award lecture by Dr. Ben Carrington, “‘The University is a Critical Institution, or it is Nothing’ - Stuart Hall, The Elephants’ Graveyard and the Sociology of Race.” Register here: emory.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The annually organized Stuart Hall Award by the Culture Section of the ASA recognizes a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for advancing the cultural study of racial or ethnic inequality.
I'll moderate the inaugural Stuart Hall Award lecture on Dec 10 2025, 10 AM (Pacific Time) by Dr. Ben Carrington (USC) on “‘The university is a critical institution, or it is nothing’ - Stuart Hall, The Elephants’ Graveyard and the Sociology of Race.” Please register:
emory.zoom.us/mee.../regis...
Excited to see the Turkish edition of my book The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (Polity 2022) just came out with Lejand.
www.lejand.com.tr/product-page...
Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."
Mark your calendar: Sept 23, I'll give a talk at U Michigan (zoom and in-person) on "Meanings of Zero: the Performative Logic of China's Zero-COVID Policy." This study is part of my ongoing book on disaster politics in China & a stand-alone article. Looking forward!
events.umich.edu/event/137321...
The paper is also the first publication from my project on the global memories of the COVID (binxu.net/ongoing-proj...). The project stretches my research abilities and emotional toughness to the limit and will be a book of tears and pains of my own and the world. Let me know if you need a PDF copy.
Pleased to announce that my paper "Sacred ordinariness: event, cultural codes, and the politics of a COVID pandemic icon" (on symbolic politics around the death and mourning of Dr. Li Wenliang, an "icon of ordinariness") was published in AJCS. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Deadline in a week! Let me know if you have any questions.
Reposting this call for contributions. Abstract by September 1, 2025!
Reposting this Call for Contributions to an edited volume. Deadline for abstracts: Sept 1, 2025
我原來以為還有一頓
聽起來有人要買單的意思？
Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw
Congrats!
Pleased to share my new article in Social Problems (w/ two stellar graduate students Lingxiao Chen and Xueqia Zhang):
"How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement"
academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
at least have a group drinking session with 黃酒
well, should we do a Hangzhou or West Lake panel right before next ASA? LOL
Our paths didn't cross in school. Also, in different generations. I went to Hangzhou High (No.1) for 6 years. It's good to know a few other fellow sociologists from Hangzhou!
the fourth here. which high school did you go to?
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You must be kidding me, a grant reviewer at Emory: "qualitative work is important only if it helps contextualize quantitative evidence. Absent this, it’s just stories."
economic downturn+unemployed, uneduated, & hateful mob+scapegoating a certain group-->a war to divert attention. that was not just Germany in the 1930s
In a world of increasing frequency, magnitude & impact of disasters, we do well to remember:
“individuals & groups are not born vulnerable: they are rendered vulnerable through processes of social marginalization & exclusion.”
Kathleen Tierney’s indispensable new edition is OUT NOW ↓
