About Sebastián Rojas Cabal

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

NBN Episodes hosted by Sebastián:

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…