Baris Cayli Messina
@bariscaylimessina.com
Academic/Writer Books with Cornell Univ Press, Univ California Press, Temple UP & McGill-Queen's UP. Editor, International Social Science Journal (Wiley/UNESCO) & Sociology Compass www.bariscaylimessina.com
“New York City, as photographed by Baldwin Lee in the latter half of the 1970s, looks as immemorially still as cities do in photographs made over a century earlier.” —Joel Smit
A City All His Own | Joel Smith
In his view camera pictures of New York in the late 1970s, Baldwin Lee made the photographic tradition of the city as empty stage set his own.
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🖤🏳️🌈 Black History Month: #HonouringOurCommunities Ted Brown helped organise the UK’s first official Pride march in 1972. He later co-founded Black Lesbians and Gays Against Media Homophobia A pioneer whose fight against racism & homophobia helped change history #BlackHistoryMonth
Wonderful news! My article, “Caged Citizenship: How States Erase Queer Public Life,” has been accepted by the European Journal of Sociology! Drawing on data from 193 countries, I examine how millions of queer people can retain legal rights while losing the freedom to exercise them. More soon!
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"The puzzle is how populations come to desire the destruction of the common world and experience that destruction as freedom." More food for thought. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Consent to Destroy: Imperial Melancholia and the Hegemony of Fragmentation - Baris Cayli Messina, 2026
Across the world’s most powerful states, millions actively embrace the destruction of the shared reality on which democratic life depends. Democracy does not si...
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A state that can't provide teachers but deploys police reveals where its priorities lie. My new sociological analysis in Social Europe, published as nationwide protests grip France today, examines the crisis of state power and democratic legitimacy. www.socialeurope.eu/frances-stud... #AcademicSky
France’s Student Revolt Exposes a State That Cannot Provide but Can Police
Over 5,000 arrests in three weeks reveal a republic quicker to discipline teenagers than to teach them.
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A state that can't provide teachers but deploys police reveals where its priorities lie. My new sociological analysis in Social Europe, published as nationwide protests grip France today, examines the crisis of state power and democratic legitimacy. www.socialeurope.eu/frances-stud... #AcademicSky
France’s Student Revolt Exposes a State That Cannot Provide but Can Police
Over 5,000 arrests in three weeks reveal a republic quicker to discipline teenagers than to teach them.
socialeurope.eu
Delighted to see the final cover of Queer Under Siege, out May 2027 with Temple University Press. Its bold colours and protest image evoke queer repression and resistance since the 1950s to struggles for freedom today. Thank you, Temple UP!
It’s very good to see that the hard right, racist backlash against inclusive policies that began in the wake of Macpherson report & became hysterical after BLM, isn’t working. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I will have more police officers of colour in the UK capital – and the culture wars won’t stop me doing it | Mark Rowley
In our major recruitment drive, the focus must be on underrepresented communities. It’s not favouritism, it is fairness – it’s essential, says Metropolitan police commissioner Mark Rowley
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My latest blog post: "The Cornell Group Chat & the Code of Silence" jeffreyianross.com/the-cornell-... #bystanderapathy #codeofsilence #crime #criminology #criminaljustice #sexualassault
The Cornell Group Chat & the Code of Silence
As a husband, father, and human being, numerous aspects of the Cornell University rape case outrage me. But what consistently sticks is this: no one in the Chi Phi Snap group chat appears to have inte...
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Sociology is amazing. Our biggest problem is bad-faith actors who maliciously spurn the field because we teach people how societies work and they'd rather we all stay in the dark. Not today, Satan!
Laura K. Nelson@lauraknelson.bsky.social · 3mo ago
Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...
guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology
The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…
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This weekend, the University of North Texas removed the homepage of its LGBTQ+ archive. We are proud to host the Lesbian Mothers Oral History Project by Nancy Lee Marquis. These oral histories are also housed at UNT. Explore the exhibit on OutHistory: outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...
The Autocrat’s Playbook is now available for pre-order from University of California Press. Out March 2027. 📚 Use promo code UCPSAVE30 at checkout for 30% discount. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-au...
The Autocrat’s Playbook by Baris Cayli Messina - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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New article: My new #openaccess article in Cultural Sociology traces how authoritarian power evolves and shows how #democracy can be hollowed out by actors who capture institutions, flood the public sphere, and weaken our capacity to act together. #AcademicSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A wonderful new endorsement for The Autocrat’s Playbook from David Cunningham: “A counter-playbook for alarmingly autocratic times.” Very grateful for his generous reading of the book. Coming from @ucpress.bsky.social in 2027.
My university just published a piece on my LETTERS TO A YOUNG CRIMINOLOGIST. The book answers questions about what criminologists actually do beyond the classroom and why it matters. www.ubalt.edu/about/newsro... #book #criminology #criminologist #criminaljustice
My new article in Sociological Theory has been published now #OpenAccess. I argue that #authoritarian #politics thrives through hegemonic fragmentation by transforming resentment into belonging, enemies into political necessities, and cruelty into common sense. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Quoted in an article recently appearing in the NEW YORK SUN, www.nysun.com/article/for-... about lockup conditions in the Special Housing Unit of the Federal Detention Center at Miami, for Andrew and Tristan Tate, #corrections #incarceration #lockup #prison #prisonconditions
For Tate Brothers, Life in a Miami Lockup Marks a Big Comedown | The New York Sun
The symbols of hyper-masculinity enjoy few comforts as they await a bail hearing in a Bureau of Prisons special unit but experts dispute claims that their lives are at risk.
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Delighted to have Ruth Ben-Ghiat's blurb for the Autocrat's Playbook. I have long admired her scholarship and writing, so her words mean a great deal to me.
My latest blog post, "Street Culture, Book by Book" jeffreyianross.com/street-cultu... #books #scholarship #streetculture #streetlife #urbanlife
Street Culture, Book by Book
Search Amazon using the term street culture, and you’ll find countless books about gangs, graffiti, street art, policing, homelessness, drug markets, skateboarding, street fashion, or urban crime, but...
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Rage and remembrance: “Remembering is a political act. To forget would be a second murder.” Through conversations with citizens and a tour of public memorials, @bariscaylimessina.com explores how commemorations of Sicily’s mafia victims expose a wound that has never healed. buff.ly/Fm2QZDI
Recently published review of my book, INTRODUCTION TO CONVICT CRIMINOLOGY (2024), by Jim Thomas, Ph.D jeffreyianross.com/wp-content/u... appeared online in CRIMINAL JUSTICE REVIEW #bookreview #convictcriminology #corrections #prisons
UC Press recently shared this generous endorsement from Didier Fassin whose research has long been a major intellectual inspiration for me, so this means a great deal. Out in March 2027 with @ucpress.bsky.social #TheAutocrat'sPlaybook #BookSky #Authoritarianism #NewBook
‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
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Full article: How does political competition persist in dominant party systems? A case study of contained pluralism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How does political competition persist in dominant party systems? A case study of contained pluralism
This article addresses a key puzzle in comparative politics: how political competition persists in subnational dominant party systems without producing turnover. While existing scholarship attribut...
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Delighted to share that I've recently joined the Editorial Board of Cultural Sociology, of the British Sociological Association. I look forward to supporting constructive feedback and reading exciting new work in the field. Please send your best work our way. journals.sagepub.com/home/CUS
Universities are indispensable to reproduce democracy, society and all kinds of other jobs. So if they are showing up as costs on your balance sheet but not as essential capacities, get a different balance sheet approach
Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe don't know who needs to hear this but ... wait ... yes we do .. it's bloody everyone.
My latest blog post, “Eleven Films I use in my Criminology and Criminal Justice Classes” jeffreyianross.com/eleven-films... #criminology #criminaljustice #films #instruction #movies #pedagogy #PhDLife #teaching #universitypedagogy
Eleven Films I use in my Criminology and Criminal Justice Classes
Although textbooks, journal articles, and lectures are important, movies are one of the most effective teaching tools available to criminology and criminal justice instructors. They can communicate id...
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