Sociology Talks: "Loyalty Traps under the First Trump Administration"

Today's talk that has been announced before will be held online due to the weather conditions.

You can access through this link:

https://bulive.bogazici.edu.tr/b/sou-shd-fpl-8ku

About Jamie L. Kucinskas:

Jamie Kucinskas is Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology at Hamilton College and Visiting Professor at the Risk and Crisis Centre at Mid Sweden University for the 2024-2025 academic year. Kucinskas is the author of the The Mindful Elite, which investigates how Buddhist modernist meditators transformed meditation in America into a mainstream practice embraced by esteemed secular organizations such as Fortune 500 companies, Ivy League schools, hospitals, the U.S. military, and K-12 schools. Through elite consensus-based tactics—these contemplative entrepreneurs have built a new multi-institutional contemplative field and legitimize meditation. The talk will focus on her second book, The Loyalty Trap, (Columbia University Press). In the book she explores how career federal civil servants responded to the Trump administration amid a leadership turn toward autocracy. She is also beginning a new project (with Hamilton Prof. Aaron Strong) comparing rural responses to climate change across central New York, Jämtland, Sweden and Canterbury Region, New Zealand.