Contesting dichotomies: urban (in)formality in Argentina
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
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. Instead of assuming a singular logic of power accumulation and symbolic violence, the article
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. At the same time, care offers a space for understanding how people engage with difference in their everyday, intimate lives, generating new forms of belonging, r
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.
