About Sebastián Rojas Cabal

Sebastián Rojas Cabal is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department at Princeton University.

NBN Episodes hosted by Sebastián:

Luis L. Schenoni, "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

October 2, 2025

Bringing War Back In

Luis L. Schenoni

Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (Cambridge UP, 2025) provides a fresh theory connecting war a…

Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024)

May 2, 2025

Indicators of Democracy

Diana Graizbord

The spread of democracy across the Global South has taken many different forms, but certain features are consistent: implementing a system of election…

Yingyao Wang, "Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State" (Columbia UP, 2024)

March 18, 2025

Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics

Yingyao Wang

China’s breathtaking economic development has been driven by bureaucrats. Even as the country transitioned away from socialist planning toward a marke…

Benjamin H. Bradlow, "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg" (Princeton UP, 2024)

January 13, 2025

Urban Power

Benjamin H. Bradlow

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment. For the first time in history, most people live in …

Erin Metz McDonnell, "Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States" (Princeton UP, 2020)

April 12, 2022

Patchwork Leviathan

Erin Metz McDonnell

Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly …

Oishik Sircar, "Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India" (Oxford UP, 2021)

January 28, 2022

Violent Modernities

Oishik Sircar

Law and violence are thought to share an antithetical relationship in postcolonial modernity. Violence is considered the other of law, lawlessness is …

Colin Jerolmack, "Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town" (Princeton UP, 2021)

January 19, 2022

Up to Heaven and Down to Hell

Colin Jerolmack

Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town (Princeton UP, 2021) is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking accoun…