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Rogers Brubaker

Sociology

Rogers Brubaker is an American sociologist, born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1956, and holder of the UCLA Foundation Chair in the sociology department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His scholarship on nationalism, ethnicity and citizenship challenges conventional treatments of these categories as fixed properties of groups, arguing instead that ethnicity and nationhood should be understood as ways of framing and interpreting social experience that come into being through specific political and social processes; his books include Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992), Nationalism Reframed (1996) and Ethnicity Without Groups (2004). His more recent work, including Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities (2016), extends this relational approach to gender identity and digital hyperconnectivity.

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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1956 1
BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account
Evanston, Illinois 1
Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own account
Sociological work spanning social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, ethnicity, religion, diasporas, gender, populism and digital hyperconnectivity. 1
Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own account
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992) 1
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1. Rogers Brubaker (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • lead section: born
    born 1956
  • body section: education
    Born in Evanston, Illinois, Brubaker attended Harvard University and the University of Sussex before receiving a PhD from Columbia University in 1990.
  • lead section: scope of work
    has written academic works on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, ethnicity, religion, diasporas, gender, populism, and digital hyperconnectivity
  • body section: bibliography
    (1992). Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany, Harvard University Press.
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