In Memoriam Robert Fine (1945-2018)

"On 9 June 2018, we lost a dear friend and colleague and one of European Sociology’s most profound and politically involved thinkers. Robert Fine’s work is of astonishing breadth, reaching from the fundamental engagement with key theorists of modernity to the analysis of specific societies at specific historical moments – such as his work on South Africa – to pointed political interventions into ongoing public debates, most recently his struggle against antisemitism. In the course of the last decade, Robert’s involvement with the ESA Research Network 31 on Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism became a very important part of his political and intellectual work, and for a significant and sustained period of his life..."