SCAS News - 20 October, 2017

New Books by Current and Former SCAS Fellows

A number of books, written by scholars in the SCAS community, have recently appeared. Please see below for a
summary of some of them.

The Drama of Social Life
Jeffrey C. Alexander
(Polity Press, 2017)

Jeffrey C. Alexander was a Fellow at the Collegium in the spring semesters of 1992
and 1996.


Marcel Mauss et Émile Durkheim, De quelques formes primitives de classification [1903]
Éric Brian (with Florence Weber and Jules Salomone, eds.)
(Presses universitaires de France, 2017)

Éric Brian was a Fellow at SCAS in the autumn semester of 1994.



Gender and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Queen Louisa Ulrika (1720-1782)
Elise M. Dermineur
(Routledge, 2017)

Elise Dermineur is a SCAS Pro Futura Fellow. She was in residence at the Collegium in the
academic year 2015-16, and in the spring of 2017.


The Labor-Managed Firm: Theoretical Foundations
Gregory K. Dow
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Gregory K. Dow was in residence at SCAS in the autumn semester of 1992.



Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754): Learning and Literature in the Nordic Enlightenment
Knud Haakonssen (with Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen, eds.)
(Routledge, 2017)

Knud Haakonssen was a Fellow at the Collegium in the academic years of 2001-02
and 2010-11, and in the autumn of 2011.


The Paradox of Vulnerability: States, Nationalism and the Financial Crisis
John A. Hall (with John L. Campbell)
(Princeton University Press, 2017)

John A. Hall was in residence at SCAS in the academic year of 1999-2000.



Women, Land Rights and Rural Development: How Much Land Does a Woman Need?
Esther Kingston-Mann
(Routledge, forthcoming 2018)

Esther Kingston-Mann was a Fellow at SCAS in the spring terms of 1998. The ideas upon which the book is based began with conversations begun when she was in residence at the Collegium.


Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed
Joëlle Rollo-Koster (ed.)
(Routledge, 2017)

Joëlle Rollo-Koster is a EURIAS Fellow at the Collegium in the academic year 2017-18.