21/08/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 22/08/2024 00:38
The American Sociological Association's Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements named SIS Postdoctoral Fellow Samantha Agarwal and SIS Professor Yang Zhang as co-honorable mentions for its Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award.
Agarwal's article, "Bivalent Hegemony: How Hindu Nationalists Appeal to Caste-Oppressed People in Communist-Ruled Kerala" (Politics & Society) explores why some members of India's most marginalized caste have come to support a party that has preserved caste hierarchies and catered to the socially dominant sections of society.
Zhang's co-authored article, "The micro-foundations of elite politics: conversation networks and elite conflict during China's reform era" (Theory and Society) offers a novel "situational conflict" explanation to account for the puzzle of why reformist leaders were periodically ousted during China's reform era (1977-1992), emphasizing the unexpected power collision that catalyzed the violent crackdown on the Tiananmen movement in 1989.
Congratulations to our distinguished scholars!