In 2008 or 2009, at an early stage of an extensive research program on criminal defense lawyers in China, I…
Freedom struggles of China’s Christian rights lawyers
civil society
RFP | SSRC Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship
The Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) aims to bring knowledge of…
RFP | SSRC Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship
The Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is now accepting applications for…
RFP | SSRC Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship
The Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is now accepting applications for…
Are societies religious? (Or is there a better question?)
As I read Roy, he reserves a place for a religion that is not admixed with other types of things,…
The civic and the popular: Reflections on the Iraqi uprising
The recent uprising began in early October 2019 and grew into a spontaneous and leaderless protest movement that quickly spread…
“Populism” in Hong Kong’s contemporary politics
Given the complicated history of populism in the Chinese context, just how has the concept been used and received within…
On the recent past, fraught present, and tenuous future of Turkish Muslim civil society
To practice anthropology is to accept an implicit temporal double bind: We think we write ethnography, but frequently our expositions…
Mere Civility—An introduction
At the height of the 2016 American presidential election, a colleague asked whether I was worried that my forthcoming book…
Revitalizing the power of the great in-between
In his thoughtful The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama argues that there are three pillars of order that are…