Book Talk | Lorenza Antonucci | Insecurity Politics: How Unstable Lives Lead to Populist Support
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge, the Global New Right working group, and the Past and Future of Work group on Wednesday, April 15 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Lorenza Antonucci. She will discuss her new book, Insecurity Politics: How Unstable Lives Lead to Populist Support, with Shari Berman and Daniel Laurison.
Lorenza Antonucci is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and was the German Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University in the academic year 2022-2023. Antonucci has conducted extensive research on the causes and effects of insecurity, authoring Student Lives in Crisis (Policy Press, 2016) and publishing in international journals across sociology (e.g., European Sociological Review, Current Sociology), political science (e.g., Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies) and social policy (e.g., Social Policy & Administration, International Journal of Social Welfare). Antonucci’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde and on the BBC among others.
Sheri Berman is a professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research interests include European history and politics; the development of democracy; populism and fascism; and the history of the left. She has written about these topics for a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly publications, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and VOX. She currently serves on the boards of the Journal of Democracy and Political Science Quarterly. Her last book was Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day (Oxford University Press 2019). Her most recent book, The Political Consequences of Economic Ideas: Neoliberalism, the Left, and the Fate of Democracy is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Daniel Laurison is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College, and the Director of Swarthmore’s Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy Initiative (HEARD). He studies US politics, inequalities in political participation, and social class mobility and reproduction. He has authored or co-authored three books: Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us (Beacon Press 2022); The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to Be Privileged (Policy Press 2019, co-authored with Sam Friedman) and Social Class in the 21st Century (2015, Penguin, as part of a team lead by Mike Savage). His most recent publication is a report entitled “The Political Disconnect: Working-Class And Low-Income People On What Politics Means To Them And How They Might Be Mobilized.”