Sociology is provincial. As a disciplinary formation institutionalized in North America and Europe, it is particularistic and parochial while masquerading as universal.
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Fatma Müge Göçek: Islam, Gender, Sexuality
There is not only one Islam, but many interpretations and practices, … not one gender, but many … and not one sexuality, but many …
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Sari Hanafi: Postcolonial Global Sociology
The post-colonial attempts to reify cultural difference and to generate cultural compassion failed to resolve specific historical contradictions in the ongoing crisis of late, transnational capitalism and repressive regimes in many Southern countries.
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Gurminder Bhambra: Connected Sociologies
The ‘connected sociologies’ approach builds on postcolonial and decolonial critiques of Eurocentrism as a better way of understanding a shared global present.
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