Joel Stillerman
@jstillerman.bsky.social
Sociologist, Assoc. Ed. for Soc. at Lat. Am. Res. Rev. Chile, labor, consumption, middle classes. Book: Identity Investments: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32853 2024 ASA Consumpt. Distinguished Scholarly publication Award.
The end of Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile in 1990 led to a rapid decline in poverty and the dramatic expansion of the middle class. Our video of the week maps the politics and consumption practices of this varied fraction of the Chilean population. Feat. @jstillerman.bsky.social buff.ly/GZAIdpp
Want to learn about cultural splits in Chile’s middle classes? Check out this podcast on #IdentityInvestments #middleclasses #culturalsociology #LatinAmerica youtube.com/watch?v=YKhV...
Neoliberal Chile Explained: Dr. Joel Stillerman on Precarious Privilege and the Middle Class
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My new chapter is out! This piece revisits longstanding debates about the relationship between middle classes and democracy through an examination of countries in the Global South. Check it out! academic.oup.com/edited-volum... #Middle Classes #Global South #Democracy #Development #Social Movements
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New paper due out this fall in Social Problems. Check it out! Crime and Symbolic Boundaries in Unsettled Times: An Analysis of Middle-Class Responses to Fear in Chile osf.io/preprints/so...
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*New Preprint Alert*: Will a Rising Middle Class in the Global South Reshape Politics? osf.io/preprints/so...
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Great idea: Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It.
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So sad to see my Alma mater crash and burn. Horrible.
The New School AAUP@newschoolaaup.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.
Mainstream journalists are abdicating their duty. Cartoonists are the real heroes of the moment.
Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊
the sobering detail here is that the Danes were prepared to fight while knowing exactly how that would likely end for them
Pam Bondi swore an oath to the Constitution—not to Donald Trump. She’s betraying that oath every single day. Impeachment is the only answer—the rule of law depends on it. Tell Congress now:
Tell Congress: Impeach Attorney General Pam Bondi
Contact Congress today!
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Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 5mo agoStaff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
People in the US arguing that it ok for a country to bomb another country because the second one has an oppressive, autocratic regime that hurts vulnerable populations might want to rethink that.
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court
String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’
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So the court that granted the guy presidential immunity ruled against him. So when he defies them, there will be no consequences.
MAHA was always a con. It was always about the ego and ambition of a drug-addled narcissistic fraud.
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
Jill Hasday@jillhasday.bsky.social · 6mo agoOn this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
I’m teaching about wealth inequality today and remembered this shameful story from 2022 about Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott’s home appraisal.
Home Appraised With a Black Owner: $472,000. With a White Owner: $750,000. (Published 2022)
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LGBTQ athletes struck gold at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games. Breezy Johnson made downhill history, while Amber Glenn helped secure gold for Team USA’s hockey team.
LGBTQ U.S. Athletes Strike Gold at Milano Cortina
Breezy Johnson makes history in downhill while Amber Glenn and Team USA’s hockey stars add to the medal count.
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