De-Centering Global Sociology: The Peripheral Turn in Social Theory and Research

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.

De-Centering Global Sociology radically questions some of the most enduring assumptions within sociological thought and social science research and illustrates the impacts of de-centering critical concepts in public policy and education. It proposes new places to build social theory, beyond Europe and the United States, offering debates on the present and future of the social sciences. This peripheral turn also has impacts on the development of pedagogical practices, curricula, and educational research that are more inclusive, and in a position to promote global citizenship.

This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in global social theory, decolonial and postcolonial studies, political theory, feminism, critical race theory, economic sociology, inequality studies, urban sociology, and the sociology of work, religion, and education. It will be of particular interest to those with a focus on citizenship, social policy, conviviality, social integration and solidarity, and new perspectives on multicultural education.

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.