Forthcoming/recent talks:
- "Israel and October 7: Ethnographic Observations, Here and There." The Palmetto Forum (luncheon), organized by the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies, The Palmetto Club, Columbia, SC, January 29, 2025. A video version is available on YouTube!
Recent publications:
- Racial Justice Activism and Democracy: The Deliberative Role of Black Women Athletes (with Brandii Brunson). In Democracy, Governance, and Law, edited by M. Deflem. Emerald Publishing, 2025.
- The Spirit of Democracies. Introduction to Democracy, Governance, and Law, edited by M. Deflem. Emerald Publishing, 2025.
- Japanese Perspectives on Law and Culture. Introduction to Law and Culture in Japan: Institutions, Justice, and Media, edited by M. Deflem, H. Takahashi, D. Vanoverbeke, and J.G. Karlin. Emerald Publishing, 2025.
- The Declining Significance of Interpol: Policing International Terrorism after 9/11. International Criminal Justice Review, 2024.
- The Cancer of the Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Reflections on the Iranian Anti-Israel Law of 2020. In Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law, edited by H. Hydén. Hart Publishing, 2023.
Mathieu Deflem, Ph.D.
Department of SociologyUniversity of South Carolina
911 Pickens Street
Columbia, SC 29208 (USA) | www.mathieudeflem.net Thieu Deflem
