1st Edition

De-Centering Global Sociology The Peripheral Turn in Social Theory and Research

Edited By Arthur Bueno, Mariana Teixeira, David Strecker Copyright 2023
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

This volume explores the challenges posed to sociological theory and social science research by a growing need to foreground perspectives stemming from, and accounting for, subaltern groups, marginal categories, the Global South, and other politically peripheral regions. De-Centering Global Sociology radically questions some of the most enduring assumptions within sociological thought and... Read more

Part I: Peripheralizing sociology

1. Putting southern perspectives to work: decolonising social theory

Raewyn Connell

2. Global inequalities: theoretical filiations and radical critique

Manuela Boatcă

3. Times and spaces of sociological and social theory: a simultaneous approach of ‘peripheries’ and ‘centres’

Alejandro Bialakowsky and Pablo de Marinis

4. Critical theory from the Americas

Stefan Gandler

Part II: Peripheralizing politics

5. Undoing the epistemic disavowal of the Haitian revolution

Gurminder K. Bhambra

6. The periphery and its ambiguities: vulnerability as a critical concept for feminist social theory

Mariana Teixeira

7. Hong Kong as a dual periphery

Craig Browne and Phillip Mar

8. Peripheral politics and knowledge production: sensing the archive through Samora Machel and Steve Biko

Carlos Fernandes and James Merron

Part III: Peripheralizing Capitalism

9. Rethinking urban studies today: the Indian experience

Sujata Patel

10. The political economy of social integration: understanding the relation of global capitalism and state politics from a postcolonial perspective on contemporary slavery

David Strecker

11. The standpoint of the proletariat today

Arthur Bueno

12. Collaboration across ontological worlds: reflections on intellectual brokerage from Islamic banking and finance

Aaron Z. Pitluck

Biography

Arthur Bueno is a Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, Affiliate Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and President of the Georg Simmel Society.

Mariana Teixeira is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and Associate Researcher at the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning, Brazil.

David Strecker has held several visiting professorships in sociology as well as political science and is currently a Research Associate at the Research Institute Social Cohesion at the University of Frankfurt as well as Visiting Researcher at the Department of Sociology at the Technical University Berlin, Germany.