4444 - Global Historical Sociology

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

The study of global and transnational social processes has too often proceeded from the assumption that such processes are new and has likewise operated by covering up the historical origins of contemporary global forms, relations, processes and practices. At best, global sociological research reduces global history to one-way flows of diffusion from the West to the Rest. This session offers recent theory and research that overcomes these assumptions and transcends the presentism of so much global sociology. Presenters discuss global and transnational relations, forms and processes from historical perspectives and situate them in their proper historical contexts.

Sub Unit

• Section on Global and Transnational Sociology / Global Historical Sociology

Session Organizer

• Julian Go, Boston University

Individual Presentations

• A Global Historical Sociology of Revolution - George Lawson, LSE

• Apprehending Otherness: The Global Historical Dimensions of Colonial Medicine - Alexandre White, Johns Hokins University

• The Occlusion of Empire in the Race vs. Class Inequality Debate in the Sociology of Race - Julia Bates, Sacred Heart University

• Transnational State Shaming and the Origins of “Evidence-Based Policymaking,” 1994 – 2017 - Andrew Keefe, Harvard University

Discussant

• Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Stony Brook University