Decentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World

Olivier Giraud is research director at the CNRS (Lise-CNRS, Paris, France). He is a specialist in comparative policy analysis: employment and training policies, long-term care policies, gender equality policies. He recently co-edited the volume Categories in Context – Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900–Present (Berghahn Books, 2019) with Isabelle Berrebi-Hoffmann, Léa Renard and Theresa Wobbe. Michel Lallement is Professor of Sociology at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris, France. His research affiliations are with the Lise-CNRS. He has written articles and books on work, employment, industrial relations and international comparisons, and the history of sociology, including Un désir d’égalité. Vivre et travailler dans des communautés utopiques (Seuil, 2019).

• 1. Introduction: Decentering comparative analysis and beyondOlivier Giraud, Lise CNRS-Cnam, ParisMichel Lallement, Lise CNRS-Cnam, ParisPart 1. Varying the analytical scale2. Decentering comparison, questioning holism: The multi-sited ethnographic approachLuis Felipe Murillo, University of Virginia - Charlottesville3. Close comparison in a global world: Categorizing the quality of work in a multinational companyBénédicte Zimmermann, EHESS, Paris, Wissenschaftskolleg BerlinLéa Renard, Freie Universität Berlin4. Decentering comparative strategies in cross-border studies: Towards a comparative analysis of scale making within assemblagesAnna Amelina, Universität Cottbus5. Engaging in a dialogue - An experiment in comparative employment Law Marie Mercat-Bruns, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris6. Which decentered methodological framework is best for comparing inclusive education policies? Serge Ebersold, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris7. Spectral comparisons: universalization, generalization, and the resource cursePablo Jaramillo, Universidad de los Andes – BogotaPart 2. Comparison: A historical phenomena and the social sciences8. The rise of comparison and the rise of the New Deal orderKiran Klaus Patel, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich9. Silicosis as a test case for the decentering of medical and labor historyPaul-André Rosental, Science Po, CFR- EHESS, ParisCatherine Cavalin, Irisso-CNRS-Université Paris DauphineMichel Vincent, Minapath Développement10. Homo Africanus vs homo œconomicus: looking back and forthMohamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, LASP-D, Saint-Louis du Sénégal 11. The rise and strength of authoritarian restoration – Constructing a comparative logic for researchWiebke Keim, Sage-CNRS, Strasbourg12. Comparing the Social and Spatial Inscription of Women’s WorkTania Toffanin, Università degli Studi, Padova13. Categoring difference: labor and the colonial experienceFerruccio Ricciardi, Lise CNRS-Cnam, ParisPart 3. Building commensurable universes for comparative analysis: Opportunities and constraints14. Comparative Research Between France and India: A View from Within Stéphanie Tawa-Lama Rewal, EHESS, Paris 15. Comparability and conditions of comparability in education. Globalization of education: economist ethnocentrism versus culturalist singularismAïssa Kadri, Université Paris 816. Comparing imagined transnational communities in France and Germany, or Playing national and European categories – religion, language, territory – at their own gameNikola Tietze, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg17. Communities, organization of work, and institutional mediation: comparing the United States and FranceCamille Boullier, Lise CNRS-Cnam, ParisMichel Lallement, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris18. On the crossroads of territorialities and temporalities: the making of social politics in BrazilIsabel Georges, IRD-UMR 201 Développement et societies, Paris19. Entangled politicizations. Democracy against the market in long-term care policiesOlivier Giraud, Lise, CNRS-Cnam, ParisConcluding remarksAndreas Eckert, Humbold University Berlin