De-Centering the Atlantic Ocean

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

Comparative historical sociology was borne out of perspectives that centered Europe, the Eastern US, and the Atlantic trade of bodies, goods, and capital. In recent years, sociology has steadily increased its focus to the Pacific and Indian Oceans through the comparative studies of, for example, Asia, Pacific empires, and indigenous communities of South America and Oceania. How does a shift away from the Atlantic add to and rewrite our theories and assumptions of global historical developments? This session highlights scholarship studying and comparing locations that are not on the Atlantic Ocean on their own merits.

Sub Unit

• Comparative-Historical Sociology Section / De-Centering the Atlantic Ocean

Presider

• Simon Yamawaki Shachter, University of Connecticut

Panelists

• Veda Hyunjin Kim, Ohio Wesleyan University

• Jillian LaBranche, Princeton University

• Heidi Christine Nicholls, Binghamton University

• Jennifer Triplett, University of Colorado-Boulder

Session Organizer

• Wan-Zi Lu, Stony Brook University