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

Part 1: Peripheralizing sociology 1. Putting Southern perspectives to work: decolonizing social theory 2. Global inequalities: theoretical filiations and radical critique 3. Times and spaces of sociological and social theory: a simultaneous approach of ‘peripheries’ and ‘centers’ 4. Critical theory from the Americas Part 2: Peripheralizing politics 5. Undoing the epistemic disavowal of the Haitian Revolution 6. The periphery and its ambiguities: vulnerability as a critical concept for feminist social theory 7. Hong Kong as a dual periphery 8. Peripheral politics and knowledge production: sensing the liberation archive through Samora Machel and Steve Biko Part 3: Peripheralizing Capitalism 9. Rethinking urban studies today: the Indian experience 10. The political economy of social integration: understanding the relation of global capitalism and state politics from a postcolonial perspective on contemporary slavery  11. The standpoint of the proletariat today 12. Collaboration across ontological worlds: reflections on intellectual brokerage from Islamic banking and finance