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- Feed Preview Concepts – GLOBAL SOCIAL THEORY
Biopower
For Foucault, the self is discursively produced over time by being subjected to the regulatory power relations of the discourses... read more
Subalternity
The question of subalternity emerges in relation to subordinate social groups and individuals whose historical activity is repressed, neglected, misinterpreted... read more
Intercultural Translation
‘Intercultural translation’, developed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, refers to the bringing together of different knowledges in different epistemes without... read more
The Racial Contract
At its most basic, the social contract is an agreement pertaining to the political and moral obligations between the state... read more
Luso-tropicalism
The groundwork for the concept of luso-tropicalism was developed by the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987) in a trilogy of... read more
Methodological Whiteness
‘Methodological whiteness’, Bhambra argues, is a way of reflecting on the world that fails to acknowledge the role played by... read more
Cosmopolitanism
According to Eurocentric narratives the concept of cosmopolitanism has a rich lineage beginning its life with Diogenes’ (c. 412 BC... read more
Food Sovereignty
Food Sovereignty is a term that refers to both a movement and an idea (Wittman et al., 2010) however, as... read more
Food Security
Food security is an essentially contested concept, recently receiving renewed attention in news articles, TV programmes, radio broadcasts and parliamentary... read more
Critical Constructivism
Critical constructivism extends and adjusts constructivism, which opposes positivism and asserts that nothing represents an objective, neutral perspective. Merging constructivist... read more
Transnationalism
Transnationalism refers to the diffusion and extension of social, political, economic processes in between and beyond the sovereign jurisdictional boundaries... read more
Settler Colonialism
Settler colonialism is a distinct type of colonialism that functions through the replacement of indigenous populations with an invasive settler... read more
Civil Society
In classical political theory, civil society is a normative concept. This is especially so insofar as civil society specifies that... read more
Secularism
The western concept of secularism has been for some time in deep and perhaps permanent crisis. Elaborated in the context... read more
Intersectionality
“Consider an analogy for traffic in an intersection, coming and going in all four directions. Discrimination, like traffic through an... read more
Border Thinking
‘Border thinking’ comes from decolonial theory. The concept was first used by Gloria Anzaldúa in her book ‘Borderlands/La Frontera: The... read more
Modernity / Coloniality
‘Modernity/coloniality’ is a concept first used by Aníbal Quijano and later developed by Walter Mignolo. It refers to the way... read more
Sanctioned Ignorance
A postcolonial critic, Spivak seeks alternative readings of culture within the context of colonialism. She writes in A Critique of... read more
The Human
Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them (Fanon, The... read more
Orientalism
In his ground-breaking book, Orientalism, Edward Said not only put forward a thorough-going critique of the discipline of Oriental Studies, but... read more
Caste, Class, and Race
The book Caste, Class and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics by the Trinidadian born, US-based scholar Oliver Cromwell Cox... read more
Sociology of Absences
The ‘sociology of absences’, developed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, refers both to the general silences around particular experiences and... read more
Southern Theory
Raewyn Connell argues that at its inception as a discipline there was no sense within sociology that ‘certain texts were... read more
Indigenisation
The publication of Akinsola Akiwowo’s ‘Contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge from an African Oral Poetry’ in 1986 proclaimed the... read more
Double-Consciousness
W. E. B. DuBois uses the concepts of ‘the veil’ and ‘double-consciousness’ to explain the peculiar conditions within which African... read more