Jesse Callahan Bryant
@jcallahanbryant
@YaleEnvironment PhD candidate studying right-wing naturalism and organicism. Stan @OhioStateFB.
My new paper on Populism and Political Violence with @JTomMueller and Paul Burow is out now in @SociusJournal! Top line takeaway is that we find evidence that in rural areas populist attitudes are associated with *reduced* support for political violence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…
The war tore apart the intellectual community of sociologists that had been developing around the North Atlantic. Some, like Hobhouse, were horrified by the fighting; others became belligerent. Durkheim and Giddings became vehement anti-German propagandists; Small at Chicago…
“the permanent Reconstruction loop” - Hunter Biden
the Massie-Carlson ticket gonna be a hot item in 2028
This is why the swamp wants me gone.
Gender, sexuality, and race relations, which were core issues for evolutionary sociology, were pushed to the margins in the process of canon formation. Nisbet’s (1967) list of the “unit-ideas of sociology” (community, authority, status, the sacred, alienation) was a travesty of…
Those Comtean notables whose texts had most explicitly concerned the primitive, the concept of progress, racial hierarchies, and gender and population issues failed to be canonized. (“Spencer is dead.”)
I have argued that the classical canon in sociology was created, mainly in the United States, as part of an effort at reconstruction after the collapse of the first European-American project of sociology; that the idea of “classical theory” replaced earlier and very different…
is "Jersey Giant" the "Wagon Wheel" of this generation?
Wilderness is the space that receives the scapegoat.
every social science debate in the 1990s: its actually socially constructed. no its a real thing. meanwhile Bush is invading Iraq where there are socially constructed nukes.
just a reminder that for no reason at all in the 1990s every message sent by a terrorist group was referred to as a "communiqué"
by definition, true radicality can only emerge in times of (and in relation to) overwhelming consensus
My girl: I've got the worst headline ever. You ready? Me: Sure. Her: "At a Pittsburgh summit, the Trump administration, energy executives, and tech barons joined as one to promote AI as the future of fossil fuels."
"if nature dies because we enter it, then the only way to save nature is to kill ourselves" - Cronon
there's dissertation's worth of ideas in why @NINP_org does not use the term "wilderness" in any of their promotional material
is there anything more to the right-left distinction than the desirability of hierarchy versus equality? like literally