Talks

Posted 08/24/2020

Global and Transnational Sociology Beyond English (ASA Annual Meeting, August 8th 2020)

Although English may be the hegemonic language of global sociology, to presume that the most critical insights in such a transnational sociology are offered in English reproduces a deeply problematic assumption. These papers from colleagues engaged in communities communicating In Albanian, Chinese, Polish, and Lakota and other Native American languages reference empirically critical questions, concepts, and debates taking place that have not yet, but ought, shape discussions in global sociology’s lingua franca.

Presider: Victoria Reyes
Discussant: Michael D. Kennedy

Presentations:

  • Global Indigenous Struggles Over the Land: Languages of Sovereignty and Settler Colonialism – James Fenelon and Kari Marie Norgaard
  • New Memory Practices On-Line and Off-Line: Hyper-Connectivity and Distance – Linda Gusia
  • Intellectuals in Spaces Without Capital: The Polish Intelligentsia Debates and Global Phenomenon of Over-Culturalization – Tomasz Zarycki
  • The Spirit of Civil Society Under Authoritarianism: The Culture of Democracy in Poland and China – Bin Xu

Posted 08/24/2020

 

Articulations of Globalizing Knowledge Cultures in Sociology (ASA Annual Meeting, August 8th 2020)

To what extent are the global and transnational styles of reasoning, types of questions, and forms of evidence organizing different knowledge cultures of sociology convergent? With ASA sections as one way to operationalize these knowledge cultures, members of various sections elaborate the principal concepts, contests, regional references and transnational connections of their field’s globalizing knowledge culture. Through discussion, we hope to identify the extent to which GATSociology might aspire to both greater breadth and coherence as an intellectual field or, alternatively, embrace a sense that only references to scale are the principal object of the #GATSociology distinction.

Presider: Monika Christine Krause
Discussant: Michael D. Kennedy

Presentations:

  • Rethinking Physical, Methodological and Theoretical Borders: Cooperative Futures in Migration Research – Cynthia Jane Buckley
  • Decolonial Abolition of Social Science Fiction – Tukufu Zuberi
  • Critiques of Global Reason: World Society, Global Fields, and the Challenge of a Relational Sociology – Jason L. Ferguson
  • The Rise of Extractive Logics – Saskia Sassen

Posted 08/24/2020

 

Empire, Institutions, and Memory (ASA Annual Meeting, August 8th 2020)

The papers in this session address global institutions and their role in managing the afterlife of imperialism. Our particular focus is on how global institutions devoted to challenging colonialism deal with managing memory, in both institutional and cultural ways. From UNESCO World Heritage sites to art installations and the We Charge Genocide Petition, these papers all take on some aspect of the institutional management of the afterlife of empire.

Presider: Zine Mugubane

Presentations:

  • Global Du Bois: Liberal Democracy and the Invention of the Colonial Subject in the Black Atlantic – Ricarda Hammer
  • Hurtful Heritage: Sites of Memory and Conscience as UNESCO World Heritage – Vaughn Schmutz, Machaela DeSoucey, and Michael A. Elliott
  • In Defense of Empire: The State Department’s Response to the “We Charge Genocide” Petition – Julian Bates
  • Longing for What May Be: Nostalgia and Utopia in Anticolonial Thought – Meghan Tinsley
  • Multiple Globalizations on One City Block: The Case of Washington, DC – Johanna K. Bockman