Full Description
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 social science research and illustrates the impacts of de-centering critical concepts in public policy and education. It proposes new places to build social theory, beyond Europe and the United States, offering debates on the present and future of the social sciences. This peripheral turn also has impacts on the development of pedagogical practices, curricula, and educational research that are more inclusive, and in a position to promote global citizenship.
This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in global social theory, decolonial and postcolonial studies, political theory, feminism, critical race theory, economic sociology, inequality studies, urban sociology, and the sociology of work, religion, and education. It will be of particular interest to those with a focus on citizenship, social policy, conviviality, social integration and solidarity, and new perspectives on multicultural education.
Contents
Part 1: Peripheralizing sociology 1. Putting Southern perspectives to work: decolonizing social theory 2. Global inequalities: theoretical filiations and radical critique 3. Times and spaces of sociological and social theory: a simultaneous approach of 'peripheries' and 'centers' 4. Critical theory from the Americas Part 2: Peripheralizing politics 5. Undoing the epistemic disavowal of the Haitian Revolution 6. The periphery and its ambiguities: vulnerability as a critical concept for feminist social theory 7. Hong Kong as a dual periphery 8. Peripheral politics and knowledge production: sensing the liberation archive through Samora Machel and Steve Biko Part 3: Peripheralizing Capitalism 9. Rethinking urban studies today: the Indian experience 10. The political economy of social integration: understanding the relation of global capitalism and state politics from a postcolonial perspective on contemporary slavery 11. The standpoint of the proletariat today 12. Collaboration across ontological worlds: reflections on intellectual brokerage from Islamic banking and finance
