Class & gender in transition: Local marriage markets in Chinese global cities
By Yvonne Berger. This blog post examines how class and gender are negotiated in Chinese urban marriage markets. It offers a valuable perspective for understanding broader global dynamics — including class reproduction, gender asymmetry, and demographic change in global cities.
Global sociology from the “metropole”: Alt-Treptow, Berlin
By Johannes Becker. This essay situates global processes within Alt-Treptow, Berlin. Drawing on local histories—from Huguenot migration to commemorative politics—it illustrates how global power relations, colonial legacies, and geopolitical confrontations are inscribed in everyday urban spaces.
Illuminati in Conakry
By Joschka Philipps. This essay sketches the meaning of Illuminati “conspiracy theories” in Conakry, Guinea, highlighting an epistemic plurality that sheds light on the “post-truth” condition seen as new and alarming in the global north.
Teaching (for) the global
By Arne Worm. Based on (auto)sociological reflections on a MA-course at the University of Göttingen, I explore experiences and challenges of incorporating the central themes of this network into academic teaching.
Global Sociology and the deep time of infrastructure
By Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem. Bringing global-sociological reflexivity to infrastructure studies, I examine how infrastructures enact power across space and time and how a longue durée approach traces colonial infrastructural formations shaping the present.
Doing Global Sociology: Why the circulation of knowledge matters?
By Clara Ruvituso. I address global sociology from a historical perspective, showing that despite the unequal North-South circulation of social theory, Latin America is a space of knowledge production with the capacity to contribute to global debates.
How old are you? Uncovering the age of research participants when it is not obvious
By Sylvia Esther Gyan. In this post, I discuss how global sociology helps us to more adequately conceptualize age, counted in the number of years lived since birth, that has long been viewed as a universal marker of personhood and status.
The global resonance of a local biographical experience: Bernard Njonga’s entrepreneurial commitment
By Gérard Amougou. Bernard Njonga's biographical experience resonates with the global challenges of social movements. If he is born and raised in a world in transition, his entrepreneurial commitment is continually affected by the articulation of "inside" and "outside" dynamics.
Global Sociology, spectrality and melancholy
By Nkululeko Nkomo. Within this brief essay, I focus on displacement through the lens of anti-apartheid exile. In listening to the haunting signs within exile narratives, I advocate for narrative-driven sociological qualitative methodologies, fostering decolonial theorising and practice on a global scale.
When was “the global”? Thinking without limits
By Fabio Santos. This essay tackles methodological presentism by engaging the historically informed sociological imagination. Identifying global entanglements much earlier than the conventional globalization literature, it makes a case for sociological theorizing from history.
