Michael Follert
Biographic Data
| ID | 337307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Follert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Follert |
| SIGNATURE | FOLLERT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0615-0934 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Living Props’
This article treats background acting as an archetypal case for theorising sociologically the work and workers that exist in the backdrop of a workplace. Turning to the sociology of attention and its conceptualisation of the background of everyday life, it draws on Zerubavel’s ‘social structure of irrelevance’ to understand background acting as an occupation. Based on in-depth interviews with unionised and non-unionised background actors working …
Evocations of the eerie
Radio is a medium that traffics first and foremost in disembodied voices. English Canadian radio drama has historically drawn upon the eeriness of the disembodied voice as an aesthetic object, and it has done so in an outsized fashion when compared with other national contexts. This trope of the disembodied or acousmatic voice draws upon a relationship to place defined by an experience of alienation and the conceits of settler colonialism. In rad…
The silent majority, populism and the shadow sides of democracy
Contractual thought and Durkheim's theory of the social
Emile Durkheim developed his sociology in part by pointing to the insufficiency of contractual explanations of society. This article examines several iterations of 'the contract' in light of the rediscovery of Durkheim's (2011 [1894-1895]) lectures on Hobbes' De Cive. By viewing these recovered lectures alongside his canonical texts, we find three ways in which Durkheim distinguished his sociology from political and economic understandings of the…
Siniša Malešević, Nation-States and Nationalisms
Norris, Pippa, Why Electoral Integrity Matters
T here is a saying in politics that the people in democracies get the gov- ernment they deserve.Since citizens delegate certain powers to their government and choose their representatives, those who vote (or don't vote) ultimately bear responsibility for the form their government takes.We are often also told that those who don't vote don't get to complain, for elections are the heart of the democratic process.But in Why Electoral Integrity Matter…
The silent majority, populism and the shadow sides of democracy
Contractual thought and Durkheim's theory of the social
Emile Durkheim developed his sociology in part by pointing to the insufficiency of contractual explanations of society. This article examines several iterations of 'the contract' in light of the rediscovery of Durkheim's (2011 [1894-1895]) lectures on Hobbes' De Cive. By viewing these recovered lectures alongside his canonical texts, we find three ways in which Durkheim distinguished his sociology from political and economic understandings of the…
Siniša Malešević, Nation-States and Nationalisms
Norris, Pippa, Why Electoral Integrity Matters
T here is a saying in politics that the people in democracies get the gov- ernment they deserve.Since citizens delegate certain powers to their government and choose their representatives, those who vote (or don't vote) ultimately bear responsibility for the form their government takes.We are often also told that those who don't vote don't get to complain, for elections are the heart of the democratic process.But in Why Electoral Integrity Matter…
Contractual thought and Durkheim's theory of the social
Emile Durkheim developed his sociology in part by pointing to the insufficiency of contractual explanations of society. This article examines several iterations of 'the contract' in light of the rediscovery of Durkheim's (2011 [1894-1895]) lectures on Hobbes' De Cive. By viewing these recovered lectures alongside his canonical texts, we find three ways in which Durkheim distinguished his sociology from political and economic understandings of the…
The silent majority, populism and the shadow sides of democracy
Evocations of the eerie
Radio is a medium that traffics first and foremost in disembodied voices. English Canadian radio drama has historically drawn upon the eeriness of the disembodied voice as an aesthetic object, and it has done so in an outsized fashion when compared with other national contexts. This trope of the disembodied or acousmatic voice draws upon a relationship to place defined by an experience of alienation and the conceits of settler colonialism. In rad…
‘Living Props’
This article treats background acting as an archetypal case for theorising sociologically the work and workers that exist in the backdrop of a workplace. Turning to the sociology of attention and its conceptualisation of the background of everyday life, it draws on Zerubavel’s ‘social structure of irrelevance’ to understand background acting as an occupation. Based on in-depth interviews with unionised and non-unionised background actors working …
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Solidarity (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)