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