Zygmunt Bauman - Fronteiras do Pensamento - edição 2011

fronteiraspoa

Entrevista com o filósofo polonês Zygmunt Bauman para o Fronteiras do Pensamento, apresentada na ocasião do encontro com o pensador francês Edgar Morin.

Social Science and the Public Good

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes the President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Craig Calhoun, NYU's University Professor of the Social Sciences, for a discussion of the challenges confronting social science research. Topics covered include studying social movements; the changing nature of the research university; adaptation and change in the social sciences; and revitalization to of the public good. Professor Calhoun also analyzes the role of ideas in contributing to the current economic crisis and discusses the Obama movement in comparative perspective.

Nations Matter: Culture, History and the Cosmopolitan Dream

Charles Tilly Gives

University Lecture

on “Violence, Terror and Politics as Usual”, Columbia University, 12 March 2002, printed in the Summer 2002 issue of the Boston Review. These reflections are related to his book The Politics of Collective Violence (Cambridge, 2003).

Charles Tilly was Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University. His work focused on large-scale social change and its relationship to contentious politics, especially in Europe since 1500. Some of his most recently published books are The Politics of Collective Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and Social Movements, 1768-2004 (Paradigm Press, 2004).

In 2005, Chuck published Trust and Rule (Cambridge University Press), Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties (Paradigm Publishers), a revised paperback edition of Popular Contention in Great Britain (Paradigm Publishers), and co-edited with Maria Kousis Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective (Paradigm Publishers), and is the 2006 triennium recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Society Sidney Hook Memorial Award. In 2006, Charles Tilly received the Karl Deutsch Award for Comparative Politics from the International Political Science Association and the Sidney Hook Memorial Award from Phi Beta Kappa. During the same year, he published Why? (Princeton University Press), the Oxford Handbook of Contextual Analysis (Oxford University Press, co-edited with Robert Goodin), Contentious Politics (Paradigm Publishers, co-authored with Sidney Tarrow), and Regimes and Repertoires (University of Chicago Press). His Democracy (Cambridge University Press) appeared in 2007.

Shortly before his death in April of 2008, Tilly received the 2008 Hiirschman Prize from the Social Science Research Council.

Conversations with History

Manuel Castells

Manuel Castells is Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was appointed in 1979 in the Department of City and Regional Planning. In 1994-98 he served as Chair of UC Berkeley's Center for Western European Studies. Between 1967 and 1979 he taught sociology at the University of Paris, first at the Nanterre Campus, then, since 1970, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He has also been professor and director of the Institute for Sociology of New Technologies, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Research Profesor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Barcelona, and a visiting professor at 15 universities in Europe, the United States, Canada, Asia, and Latin America. He has lectured at about 300 academic and professional institutions in 40 countries.

USC Annenberg

Conversations with History