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.
Contesting dichotomies: Urban (in)formality in Argentina
By Soledad Balerdi. Informality is not the exclusive characteristic of the self-built habitat of the urban poor in Latin America. Instead formality/informality –as an articulated concept- is rather the more general way in which the State produces the city.
Ontologies of power
By Daniel Bultmann. This article argues for the provincialization of Pierre Bourdieu’s conception of power in social fields by integrating Southeast Asian ontologies of power, particularly the concept of liminal and ambiguous potestas.
Care as a lens on social inequalities and transformations
By Megha Amrith. This post reflects on care as a central global sociological concern, reflective of global interconnections and enduring inequalities.
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.
