Rethinking Africa’s sociological project

Sitas, Ari

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“…Rancière’s (2004, 2010) disagreement and dissensus offer a perspective in re-reading the false world of ‘order’: the ‘Police logic’ of managing order versus ‘politics’ in the partaking of those denied the right to participate. One global sociological reading of the world proposes that we examine ‘the cycles of deviance and defiance’ as essential to appreciate the contestations and struggles over the normalisation imposed by the ‘forces of order’, contra the forces of deviance and defiance (Sitas et al, 2014).…”

Section: Sociological Self-reflexivity and Theorising: Struggles For mentioning

confidence: 99%

Public sociology, social justice and struggles in the era of austerity-and-crises

Trimikliniotis

2018

International Social Work

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This article examines the potential for dialogic engagement between the academic disciplines of sociology and social work, on the one hand, and political/social struggles for equality and social justice, on the other. Particular strands of sociology engage with, connect to and articulate struggles of marginalised, oppressed or exploited communities. The article draws on global debates to examine the potential for a public sociology of social justice and equality, which is intimately connected to social work. It illustrates how knowledge from struggles and what is labelled as mobile commons can and must inform sociology, social work and emancipatory praxis.

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Section: Sociological Self-reflexivity and Theorising: Struggles For mentioning

confidence: 99%

Public sociology, social justice and struggles in the era of austerity-and-crises

Trimikliniotis

2018

International Social Work

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“…Seeing contemporary international academic sociology as fragmented and the position of ‘peripheral’ (non-Western) disciplinary communities as discriminated against has become a truism in academic discourse in recent years (Omobowale et al, 2014; Sitas, 2014; Sorokin, 2016b).…”

Section: ‘Eurocentrism’ Of the Discipline’s Core Conceptual Apparatusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Global Sociology in the Context of Neoliberal Domination: Challenges, Ideology and Possible Strategies

Sorokin

2017

Sociological Research Online

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This article discusses perspectives for making global sociology, which implies open and fruitful cooperation between sociologists from different locations, as well as enhancing our discipline’s positions in the field of social sciences and in extra-academic environments. Drawing on Wacquant’s ideas, we understand neoliberalism as a globally dominant approach to social regulation, combining market-oriented mechanisms in economic transactions and restrictive control apparatus based on the cultural imperative of individual responsibility, supported by the state. Intellectually rooted in European liberal tradition and supported by neoclassical economics’ conceptual frameworks, neoliberalism has shaped three interrelated challenges for global sociology: (1) Eurocentric conceptual apparatus within the discipline, (2) domination of economics over sociology in the field of social sciences, and (3) marketisation of the academic world, promoting direct ‘profitability’, and making ‘public value’ of scientific knowledge less relevant. We argue that these three challenges generate a tendency towards negative ideological unity across a significant number of sociological communities worldwide, which tend to see neoliberalism as a multifaceted common enemy. Despite being evidence-based, this emerging global ideological unity in sociology is problematic because it lacks a strong positive project. Instead of hostile attitudes towards internal and external agents affiliated with neoliberalism, the solidarity-oriented strategies may be helpful in building a truly global sociology.

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“…The explanation for the theoretical and methodological extraversion of the sciences in general – and more specifically, of the social sciences – is obviously not that theories are not produced in the South (or by women, for that matter). In spite of the importance of the conditions for economic dependency noted by Hountondji (1997) and Sitas (2014), as S. F. Alatas (2006) shows, sociology has predecessors who came from outside Euro-America (such as Ibn Khaldun, among others), and it continues to produce theory in different corners of the world, as noted by Connell (2007) and Maia (2014).…”

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Sociologies of the South and the actor-network-theory

Rosa

2016

European Journal of Social Theory

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This article analyses the contributions of the sociologies or theories of the South to the contemporary debates on the production of theory in the social sciences. Starting with the assumption that these projects adopt a critical view of how sociology has privileged certain objects over others in a colonial way, it proposes an analysis that makes use of certain aspects of the actor-network theory. This approach, it is suggested, will help the sociologies of the South to focus on the production of ontoforms as their specific object, ontoforms which expand and at times challenge the established hegemonic notions of the social and of agency in this area of knowledge.

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Rethinking Africa’s sociological project

Cited by 21 publications

References 17 publications

Public sociology, social justice and struggles in the era of austerity-and-crises

Public sociology, social justice and struggles in the era of austerity-and-crises

Making Global Sociology in the Context of Neoliberal Domination: Challenges, Ideology and Possible Strategies

Sociologies of the South and the actor-network-theory

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