Profile
Jeffrey Goldfarb is Professor Emeritus of听听at 麻豆传媒色情片 for Social Research and Senior Fellow at the . He is also the Co-Executive Editor of听听and Special Advisor to the Provost for 麻豆传媒色情片 Publishing Initiative.听His work primarily focuses on the sociology of media, culture and politics.听
He also runs the , a worldwide committee of scholars, journalists, activists, and citizens who seek to understand the origins of the threats, to analyze their dimensions and, most importantly, to exchange ideas and experiences about how to oppose them.
Degrees Held
PhD 1976, University of Chicago
Recent Publications
Books
, (Polity Press, 2011, Polish edition, 2012)
听(University of Chicago Press, 2006, Korean and Polish editions, 2011)
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An excerpt from听The Politics of Small Things: The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times
, Cambridge University Press, 1998 (Spanish edition, Madrid, Cambridge University Press, 2000, Chinese, 2003)
, Basic Books, 1992, (Excerpts published in Czech and Romanian)
, The University of Chicago Press, 1991 (Japanese edition, Japan Times Press, 1992)
, The University of Chicago Press, 1989, (Excerpts published in Polish)
, The University of Chicago Press, 1983
Articles
"Media Events, solidarity, and the rise and fall of the public sphere,"听Media, Culture, and Society, August 2017.
"Memory, art and the social condition,"听European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, July 2017.
"Civility and Subversion Revisited: Twenty-First Century Media Intellectuals as Ideologists and Anti-ideologists,"听International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society, Vol. 25(4), July, 2012.
鈥淥n Barack Obama,鈥澨Constellations, June 2, 2009
鈥1989 and The Not So Lost Treasure of the Revolutionary Tradition, or Barack Obama and the politics of small things,鈥澨International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, September, 2009
鈥淩esistance and Creativity in Social Interaction,鈥澨International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, June, 2009
The Sociology of Micropolitics: An Examination of a Neglected Field of Political Action in the Middle East and Beyond,鈥听Sociology Compass,听2, 2008
"The Politics of Small Things, Left and Right,"听Contexts听(2006)
Chapters
鈥淭he Cultural Constitution of Publics,鈥 (with Yifat Gutman),听, Laura Grindstaff, John R. Hall and Ming-cheng Lo (eds.), 2010
鈥淭he Liberal Arts as a Dialogic Project,鈥 in Charles Camic and Hans Joas (ed.),听The Posts - disciplinary History of Modern Academic Disciplines, Rownan and Littlefield, 2004
Research Interests
Comparative study of relationships among media, culture, micro-politics