Research Handbook on Public Sociology

Edited by Lavinia Bifulco, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca and Vando Borghi, Professor of Economic Sociology and Sociology of Work and Organizations, Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Italy

• Contents:PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY: EXPLORING AN APPROACH ‒ AN INTRODUCTION1 Public sociology, a perspective on the move 2Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi2 Why public sociology? 19Michael BurawoyPART I CONNECTIONS AND CONVERSATIONS: AUTHORS ANDRESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DIALOGUE WITH PUBLICSOCIOLOGY3 Public inquiry in social sciences: a pragmatist outlook 23Daniel Céfaï4 Public sociology and the capability approach: exploring the potential ofa fruitful combination 42Jean-Michel Bonvin and Francesco Laruffa5 Sociology and quantification: economics of convention as an approachto link quantification and public sociology 58Rainer Diaz-BonePART II FORTH AND BACK ACROSS (DISCIPLINARY) BORDERS:WAYS OF THINKING AND PRACTICING PUBLIC RESEARCH6 What is at stake when social science goes public? 74Didier Fassin7 Public history 86Serge Noiret8 Public geography 104Salvo Torre9 Urban planning 114Marco Cremaschi10 Legitimacy of law and the expertise of public sociology 129Supriya Routh11 The foundational economy approach: a public social science ofsocio-economic life 142Julie Froud, Angelo Salento and Karel WilliamsPART III THEMES AND RESEARCH ISSUES: DEEPENING PSPOTENTIALITIES DEALING WITH DIFFERENT FIELDS12 Science, the environment and the public 158Luigi Pellizzoni13 Public sociology in disaster situations: critical engagement andprefiguration against defuturing processes 174Laura Centemeri and Davide Olori14 Public sociology and populism 188Paul Blokker15 Borders and migrants in Europe 202Tatjana Sekulić16 Local/urban democracy and citizenship 218Marisol Garcia17 Associationalism: the past, present, and future of public sociology 234Bruno Frère18 Public, policy or politicized sociology? Notes from the field of socialpolicy and poverty research 250Sandro Busso19 Critical sociologies of work in the cultural industries: pathways to‘creative justice’? 265Mark Banks20 Sociologies of education in an era of new critique: getting out ofmethodological nationalism and reconsidering education througha global perspective 280Romuald Normand21 Sociology of expertise as public sociology 295Gil Eyal22 Poverty, the battle against stigmatization and the role of public sociology 311Enrica Morlicchio and Dario Tuorto23 Health 324Magdalena ChiaraPART IV FOR A PUBLIC ACADEMIA: PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY ANDPUBLIC ACADEMIES24 Paradoxes, contradictions, and deep feelings of ambivalence, or,academia still appeals 337Eeva Berglund25 Publicness and teaching: public knowledge as collective process ofrepoliticization of daily life 351Vincenza Pellegrino26 Postcolonialism and sociology 368Manuela Boatcă, Sina Farzin and Julian GoIndex

‘Public sociology has engaged scholars in different corners of the world to think further and develop a sociology of possibility, oriented to the improvement of citizens’ lives. This Research Handbook is an excellent account of how sociologists can approach possibility from very diverse and controversial angles. A must read.’