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.
When migrants compare: De-centring Europe in migration management
By Hilal Alkan. This text explores the possibility of doing a comparative global sociology through ethnographic methods, by foregrounding the narratives of Syrian refugees who first lived in Turkey and then moved to Germany.
The whims and fancies of technological modernity: Biometrics and the digital empire of (mis)trust
By Rajiv K. Mishra. This blog highlights the resurgence of biometric governmentality in India from colonial times to the present neoliberal era. In doing so, it argues that at heart of this governmentality is the re-institutionalization of (mis)trust of Dalits and Adivasis for accessing welfare entitlements.
The gendered dynamics of women’s work in Indonesia: Theorizing from Global South cases
By Rachel Rinaldo. In this essay, I discuss the gendered nature of women's work in Indonesia and consider the question of how to generalize from case studies in the Global South.
Urban comparativism and studying secularity: Interpreting young Chinese swarming to Buddhist temples
By Weishan Huang. My research focuses on the ongoing development of visible religious infrastructure and how it influences the faith of urban youth in the context of the period after COVID-19, within the framework of infrastructuring religion.
Making the town: Afro-Brazilian Tabon returnees and the transformation of Accra from the early colonial times
By Steve Tonah. This blogpost examines the contributions of the Tabon returnees from Brazil to the growth and transformation of Accra during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
