De-Centering Global Sociology

This volume explores the challenges posed to sociological theory and social science research by a growing need to foreground perspectives stemming from, and accounting for, subaltern groups, marginal categories, the Global South and other politically peripheral regions.

Autorentext

Arthur Bueno is a Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, Affiliate Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and President of the Georg Simmel Society.

Mariana Teixeira is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and Associate Researcher at the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning, Brazil.

David Strecker has held several visiting professorships in sociology as well as political science and is currently a Research Associate at the Research Institute Social Cohesion at the University of Frankfurt as well as Visiting Researcher at the Department of Sociology at the Technical University Berlin, Germany.

Inhalt

Part 1: Peripheralizing sociology 1. Putting Southern perspectives to work: decolonizing social theory 2. Global inequalities: theoretical filiations and radical critique 3. Times and spaces of sociological and social theory: a simultaneous approach of 'peripheries' and 'centers' 4. Critical theory from the Americas Part 2: Peripheralizing politics 5. Undoing the epistemic disavowal of the Haitian Revolution 6. The periphery and its ambiguities: vulnerability as a critical concept for feminist social theory 7. Hong Kong as a dual periphery 8. Peripheral politics and knowledge production: sensing the liberation archive through Samora Machel and Steve Biko Part 3: Peripheralizing Capitalism 9. Rethinking urban studies today: the Indian experience 10. The political economy of social integration: understanding the relation of global capitalism and state politics from a postcolonial perspective on contemporary slavery 11. The standpoint of the proletariat today 12. Collaboration across ontological worlds: reflections on intellectual brokerage from Islamic banking and finance