The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology

Gurminder K. Bhambra, Lucy Mayblin, Kathryn Medien, Mara Viveros-Vigoya, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Lucy Mayblin, Kathryn Medien, Mara Viveros-Vigoya, Author

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781529772128
• eBook ISBN: 9781529614916
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

The SAGE Handbook of Global Sociology addresses the 'social', its various expressions globally, and the ways in which such understandings enable us to understand and account for global structures and processes. It demonstrates the vitality of thought from around the world by connecting theories and traditions, including reflections on European colonization, to build shared, rather than universal, understandings.  

Across 36 chapters, the Handbook offers a series of perspectives and cases from different locations, enabling the reader better to understand the particularities of specific contexts and how they are connected to global movements and structures. By moving beyond standard accounts of sociology and social theory, this Handbook offers both valuable insight into and scholarly contribution to the field of global sociology. 

Part 1: Politics

Part 2: Labour

Part 3: Kinship

Part 4: Belief

Part 5: Technology

Part 6: Ecology

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology
• Editorial Board
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Global Sociology: A Theoretical Frame
• Part 1 Politics
• 1 The Hostile Environment, Covid-19, and the Creation of Asylum Colonies in the UK
• 2 The Colonial Contemporary: Thinking from the Operational Digital Enclosure of Muslims in Northwest China
• 3 Postcolonial Governmentalities: Brownface in Singapore
• 4 Blackness and Anti-Blackness: Social Death and Ancestry throughout the Americas
• 5 Expanding Homonationalism beyond the Empire: Reimagining Queerness within the Nation
• 6 Problematizing Hongkonger Political Subjectivity: The Struggle for, and over, Democracy
• Part 2 Labour
• 7 Domestic Work in India: Examining Caste and Gender in Constructing Labour
• 8 Labour Transformations in Central and Southern Africa from Colonial to Postcolonial Times
• 9 Amid Gender and Racial Violence: Political Potencies of the Work of Care in Schools
• 10 Developing Decolonial Aesthetics with Migrant Domestic Worker Creative Communities
• 11 Gender Reversal in the Workplace: Female Bodies in Male Strongholds
• 12 Time and Gradations in Europe: Temporality and Racialized Labour among Young Russian Migrants in Helsinki
• Part 3 Kinship
• 13 Textile Companions
• 14 Building Coalitions across Structural Borders as a Form of Radical Intimacy and Kinship1
• 15 Maitri and the Possibilities of Reconfiguring ‘Friendship’ in Caste-ridden Societies: A Critical Reflection
• 16 Beyond the Colonial Ontological Turn: Social and Emotional Wellbeing and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Australia
• 17 Lesbianas and Queer Kinship in Mexico City
• 18 Collective Pathways in Feminist Cultural Studies of the Global South
• Part 4 Belief
• 19 Community and Improvement of the Self in Pre-modern Philosophy: The Case of Ibn Bâja and Ibn Tufayl
• 20 Saints and their Replicants: A Decolonization of Power through Ultra-baroque Devotion
• 21 Interrogating the Other: Belief in Witchcraft among the Akan Nzema People in Pentecostal-Charismatic Africa
• 22 Sikh Philosophy: Transforming Self, World and Society
• 23 Who Art Babylon? Decoding Rastafari Experiential Realities in CritiquingModernity
• 24 Indigenous Spirituality Inspires Decolonization of Religious Beliefs
• Part 5 Technology
• 25 (Un)blocking Utopia: Blockchain Imperialism and Crypto-colonialism in Global Development
• 26 Technologies at ‘the Edge of the World': Outer Space, Global Inequalities and the Promise of Progress
• 27 The Creole Web: A Theory of Place, Space, Time, and Race
• 28 Globalization of Assisted Reproduction: ‘Intimate’ Politics of Race and Reproduction1
• 29 The Ethno-Stack
• 30 Precarious Disruption: Revisiting Worker Control and Consent in the Age of Algorithms and Apps
• Part 6 Ecology
• 31 Connecting Sociologies of Extraction, Monoculture and Pollution
• 32 African Environmental Philosophy and the Quest for a SustainableFuture
• 33 Diverse Ways of Interaction between Humans and Non-humans: Demands of Indigenous Women of Politicization of Life to Confront Extractivism in LatinAmerica
• 34 Revaluing the Mundane: Citizen Science after Fukushima
• 35 Greenpeace, Alang, and the Binary Labels that Defined the Existence of the Indian ShipbreakingIndustry
• 36 Climate: An Atmosphere of Violence, a Canopy for Decolonial Turns
• Index