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About Sebastián Rojas Cabal
Sebastián Rojas Cabal is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department at Princeton University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Sebastián:
Sociology
April 12, 2022
Patchwork Leviathan
Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States
Erin Metz McDonnell
Hosted by
Sebastián Rojas Cabal
Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the rest. Why? Patchwork …
Sociology
January 28, 2022
Violent Modernities
Cultural Lives of Law in the New India
Oishik Sircar
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Sebastián Rojas Cabal
Law and violence are thought to share an antithetical relationship in postcolonial modernity. Violence is considered the other of law, lawlessness is understood to produce violence, and law is invoked …
Sociology
January 19, 2022
Up to Heaven and Down to Hell
Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town
Colin Jerolmack
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Sebastián Rojas Cabal
Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town (Princeton UP, 2021) is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking account of what happens when one …