This article argues that proximity is a mode of governance that both enchants aspirational
citizen-subjects and exposes ambivalent state workings. I track face-to-face and digitally …

Diese Erhebung untersucht Rahmenbedingungen der Zivilgesellschaft in Österreich. Sie
wurde am Institut für Soziologie und empirische Sozialforschung der WU durchgeführt …

What is the role of humor in obfuscating social hierarchy? This article describes how caste
prejudices among male taxi drivers in Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas are enacted …

The authors offer andolan/protest imaginaries, meditations that move between the heady
inspirations of current protests and the stultifying violence of state practices in South Asia …

The task of recent scholarship on India's post-liberalisation period has been, in part, a re-
casteing: a deliberate investigation of the ways in which historically embedded hierarchical …

India, scholars have sought answers to the questions: How do voters vote? Why do voters
vote? The two questions correspond to the methodological choice of either election surveys …

This survey examines the framework conditions of civil society in Austria. It was conducted at
the Institute for Sociology and Empirical Social Research at WU. It builds on two previous …