Mast, Jason, Dr.
Ehemaliges Mitglied
Projekte und Positionen im Forschungsverbund
Post Docs
Forschungsthema
Normative orders in crisis: Cultural codes in Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election
Kurzbeschreibung Forschungsthema
Recently, western democracies have been wracked by unanticipated swells of populism, ethno-nationalism, and isolationism, all of which are greatly unsettling the neoliberal, globalist, and multicultural trajectories many assumed were durable and determined. The shock produced by events like Brexit, Trump’s victory, le Pen’s showing in the French vote, and far right gains in Germany, indicate that taken for granted cultural assumptions are not only being called into question but upended. Foundational cultural elements that control, anchor, and organize social orders are in crisis, and are being challenged in severe ways. In this research project, I am examining the scope and intensity of these conditions of cultural crisis.
Fachrichtungen
Cultural and political sociology; interdisciplinary methods
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Culture, democracy, citizenship, legitimacy, power, performativity, structural hermeneutics and network analysis
Biografische Angaben
1/2018: Research Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence/ Research Centre Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
1/2013-12/2017: Global Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick
Publikationen
Artikel
2017
Mast, Jason (2017): Legitimacy Troubles and the Performance of Power in the 2016 US Presidential Election. | doi:10.1057/s41290-017-0046-6
2016
Mast, Jason (2016): Action in Culture: Act I of the presidential primary campaign in the U.S., April to December, 2015,” American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 4 (48): 241-288. | doi:10.1057/s41290-016-0009-3
Buchkapitel
2018
Mast, Jason (2018): "Fragments, ruptures, and resurgent structures: The civil sphere and the fate of 'civilship' in the era of Trumpism," forthcoming in J. Mast and J. Alexander (eds.) Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics: Cultural Sociology of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Palgrave Macmillan.
Monographie
2013
Mast, Jason (2013): The Performative Presidency: Crisis and Resurrection During the Clinton Years. Cambridge University Press. | https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139206938
