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.
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.
