Congratulations to Lynette Ong whose book, Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press), has received two awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA):
- The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Political Sociology, Co-Winner, 2023 (Section on Political Sociology)
- The Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award 2023 (Section on Sociology of Human Rights)
The purpose of the section on Political Sociology is to promote the scholarly research and professional activities of those concerned with a sociological understanding of political phenomena. The phrase “sociological understanding” is interpreted to encompass the wide variety of theoretical and associated methodological approaches with which sociologists attempt to describe and explain social phenomena. The phrase “political phenomena” is interpreted to encompass the wide variety of topics that sociologists investigate, including social and cultural bases of power and authority.
The Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award recognizes books that demonstrate the most thoughtful, competent, or innovative analysis of a theoretical or empirical issue that is germane to the Section on Human Rights’ main interests which seeks to promote and support critical, interdisciplinary, and international engagement with human rights scholarship, teaching and practice, as well as to foster human rights approaches to the sociological enterprise. The Sociology of Human Rights is conceived broadly and inclusively as a scholarly and human pursuit of understanding the social, political, cultural, and comparative construction of human rights histories, institutions, discourses, and futures as well as the social structures, relations, and practices that will most fully support the realization of human rights in the world.