The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology

Gurminder K. Bhambra is a professor of postcolonial and decolonial studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. Previously, she was a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick and has held visiting positions at EHESS Paris, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, and Concurrences Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Sweden. Her publications include Connected Sociologies (Bloomsbury, 2014) andRethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination (Palgrave, 2007), which won the 2008 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. She set up the Global Social Theory (globalsocialtheory.org) website and is coeditor of Discover Society (discoversociety.org). Her website is gkbhambra.net. Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on asylum, human rights, policy-making, and the legacies of colonialism.  Kathryn Medien is a Lecturer in Sociology based in the Sociology Department at the Open University. Her research interests are in social and political theory, particularly anti-colonial thought and feminist theory.  Mara Viveros-Vigoya is Full Professor in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the National University of Colombia, where she has taught in the Department of Anthropology (1998-2017) and in the School of Gender Studies, of which she is co-founder and has been its director three times. 

Editors′ Introduction - Gurminder Bhambra, Lucy Mayblin, Kathryn Medi
Part 1: POLITICS
Chapter 1: The Hostile Environment, Covid-19, and the Creation of Asylum Colonies in the UK - Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, Tesfalem Habte Yemane, and Peninah Wangari-Jones
Chapter 2: Contemporary Colonial Frontier Making: Thinking From the Operational Digital Enclosure of Muslims in Northwest China - Darren Byler
Chapter 3: Postcolonial Governmentalities: Brownface in Singapore - Terri-Anne Teo
Chapter 4: Blackness and Anti-Blackness: Social Death and Ancestry throughout the Americas - Osmundo Pinho
Chapter 5: Not just an imperial thing: Homonationalism in the Philippines - John Andrew G. Evangelista
Chapter 6: Problematizing Hongkonger Political Subjectivity: The Struggle for, and over, Democracy - Petula Sik Ying Ho, Sui Ting Kong, Stevi Jackson
Part 2: LABOUR
Chapter 7: Domestic work in India: examining caste and gender in constructing labour - Supurna Banerjee
Chapter 8: Labour transformations in Central and Southern Africa from colonial to postcolonial times - Kleoniki Alexopoulou
Chapter 9: Amid Gender and Race Violence: Political Potencies of the Work of Care in Schools - Cláudia Vianna and Alanis Bello Ramírez
Chapter 10: Developing decolonial aesthetics with migrant domestic worker creative communities - Julie Ham, Christine Vicera, and Jemima Joy Gbadago
Chapter 11: Gender reversal in the workplace: Female bodies in male strongholds - Halima Diallo
Chapter 12: Time and Gradations in Europe: Temporality and Racialized Labour among Young Russian migrants in Helsinki - Daria Krivonos
Part 3: KINSHIP
Chapter 13: Textile Companions - Tania Cristina Pérez-Bustos
Chapter 14: Building coalitions across structural borders as a form of radical intimacy and kinship - Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki
Chapter 15: "Maitri" and the Possibilities of Reconfiguring ‘Friendship’ in Caste-ridden Societies: A Critical Reflection - Dhiraj Singha
Chapter 16: Beyond the Colonial Ontological Turn: Social and emotional wellbeing and Indigenous knowledge systems in Australia - Pat Dudgeon & Abigail Bray
Chapter 17: Lesbianas and Queer Kinship in Mexico City - Anahi Russo Garrido
Chapter 18: Collective Pathways in Feminist Cultural Studies of the Global South - Mónica Inés Cejas, María Teresa Garzón Martínez & Merarit Viera Alcazar
Part 4: BELIEF
Chapter 19: Community and Improvement of the Self in Pre-Modern Philosophy: The Case of Ibn Bâja and Ibn Tufayl - Soumaya Mestiri
Chapter 20: Saints and their replicants: a decolonization of power through ultra-baroque devotion - Renée de la Torre
Chapter 21: Interrogating the Other: Belief in Witchcraft among the Akan Nzema People in Pentecostal-Charismatic Africa - Genevieve Nrenzah
Chapter 22: Sikh Philosophy: Transforming Self, World and Society - Arvind-Pal S. Mandair
Chapter 23: Who Art Babylon? Decoding Rastafari Experiential Realities in Critiquing Modernity - Ras Wayne Rose
Chapter 24: Indigenous Spirituality Inspires Decolonization of Religious Beliefs - Sylvia Marcos
Part 5: TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 25: (Un)blocking Utopia: Blockchain Imperialism and Crypto-colonialism in Global Development - Jillian Crandall
Chapter 26: Technologies at ‘the edge of the world’. Space, global inequalities and the promise of progress - Alessandra Marino
Chapter 27: The Creole Web: A Theory of Place, Space, Time, and Race - Douglas-Wade Brunton
Chapter 28: Globalization of assisted reproduction: “Intimate” Politics of Race and reproduction - Amrita Pande
Chapter 29: The Ethno-Stack - Héctor Beltrán
Chapter 30: Precarious Disruption: Revisiting Worker Control and Consent in the Age of Algorithms and Apps - Srravya Chandhiramowuli, Janaki Srinivasan, Pradyumna Taduri
Part 6: ECOLOGY
Chapter 31: Connecting Sociologies of Extraction, Monoculture and Pollution - Su-ming Khoo
Chapter 32: African Environmental Philosophy and the Quest for a Sustainable Future - Workineh Kelbessa
Chapter 33: Diverse ways of interaction between humans and nonhumans: Demands of indigenous women of politicization of life to confront extractivism in Latin America - Astrid Ulloa
Chapter 34: Revaluing the mundane: Citizen science after Fukushima - Yasuhito Abe
Chapter 35: Greenpeace, Alang, and the Binary Labels that Defined the Existence of the Indian Shipbreaking Industry - Ayushi Dhawan
Chapter 36: Climate: An Atmosphere of Violence, A Canopy for Decolonial Turns - Daniel Voskoboynik