Federico Brandmayr
Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at Yale University
Articles
2025
The Left and the Right in the Ethnographic Imagination
Poetics
Roots of Distrust: Opposition to Science-Based Policy-Making during the Xylella Emergency in Salento
Cultural Sociology
Disciplinary Identity and the Idea of a Unified Social Science: A Survey of British Academics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
2024
From Disappointment to Audience Switch: Giorgio Agamben and the Pandemic
American Journal of Cultural Sociology
2023
A Stranger in His Own Field? Bellah’s Radical Critique of Science
The American Sociologist
2022
The Political Flexibility of the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Sociologica
2021
Are Theories Politically Flexible?
Sociological Theory
European Journal of Social Theory
Explanations and Excuses in French Sociology
European Journal of Social Theory
Public Epistemologies and Intellectual Interventions in Contemporary Italy
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
Science as Culture
2018
Hétérogénéité et flexibilité dans les usages politiques de l’argument de l’« excuse sociologique »
Zilsel
Order and Conflict Theories of Science as Competing Ideologies
Social Epistemology
2017
How Social Scientists Make Causal Claims in Court: Evidence from the L’Aquila Trial
Science, Technology & Human Values
Book chapters
2025
The Curious Reception of Giorgio Agamben's Pandemic Writings
Dramatic Intellectuals
Conclusion – Rooting out Denialism: From Breakdown to Breakthrough
Organized Science Denial: An Action Plan for Solutions.
2021
The Legal Significance of Theories of Public Trust in Science: An Illustration from Italy.
Trust Matters: Cross-Disciplinary Essays
Reviews and review essays
2021
The Crisis of Expertise, by Gil Eyal
European Journal of Social Theory
2019
The Dark Side of Podemos? by Josh Booth and Patrick Baert
The Sociological Review
2018
Socialisme et sociologie, by Bruno Karsenti et Cyril Lemieux
Revue française de science politique
2016
Pour la sociologie. Et pour en finir avec une prétendue ’culture de l’excuse’, by Bernard Lahire
Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia
Masters of Uncertainty. Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth, by Phaedra Daipha
Revue française de sociologie
2015
Globalizing Knowledge: Intellectuals, Universities, and Publics in Transformation, by Michael D. Kennedy
European Journal of Sociology
Public writing
2021
Social Scientists: A New Priestly Caste?
The Philosopher
2020
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Contact
federico.brandmayr [AT] yale.edu