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 


Social Science as Apologia 

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 


When Boundary Organisations Fail: Identifying Scientists and Civil Servants in L’Aquila Earthquake Trial 

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


Are the Experts Responsible for Bad Disaster Response? A Few Lessons for the Coronavirus Outbreak from L’Aquila 

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 



Contact


federico.brandmayr [AT] yale.edu