The special issue of Philosophy and Society (36:1, 2025), Resilience and/or Vulnerability of the Civil Sphere, edited by CCS Faculty Fellow Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, CCS Faculty Fellow Elisabeth Becker, and Milica Resanović is available now.
From the Introduction to the special issue: “This special issue arose out of a conference hosted at Heidelberg University “The Civil Sphere: Global Perspectives on Culture and Politics,” from October 18-19, 2023. The conference united scholars working in the field of cultural sociology from across the globe, with the shared goal of engaging with and further developing Civil Sphere Theory, considering its global dimensions, in particular. While the conference provided an intellectual opportunity for scholars across neighboring disciplines to employ cultural sociological theory and methods in order to speak to key sociopolitical shifts, including contemporary refugee and migration waves, global environmental degradation, enduring racism, and political waves of populism, we have since entered into a time of notably increased democratic crisis. We believe that the contributions in this special issue, both as individual papers and as a whole, are therefore more relevant than ever–both in and beyond the academy.”