Doing Sociology: Holding Space for the (In)Visible – Ami Sahgal
“As students of sociology, our focus is on studying actions that are repetitive, recurrent and purposive” -this line was frequently…
Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve by Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa (2024): A Review by Jose Benny
Young scholars in the social sciences are often nudged by their professors to direct their curiosity towards the historical context…
C Parvathamma’s Vision for Indian Sociology: Caste, Gender, and Justice – Prajwal T V and Karamala Areesh Kumar
Western thinkers largely dominate the writings on Sociology across academic institutions in India. On the other hand, those that address…
From Words to Worlds: The Power of Fiction in Sociological Research – Srishti Ganguly
Mapping Sociological Realities Through A Fictional Lens Employing fiction as a sociological source for research may appear unconventional, yet its…
Sociologists’ Futurity Formation Through Hauntology – Sheng-Hsiang Lance Peng
At its core, Sociology thrives when it casts its gaze outward, going into the knots of human society: its myriad…
Sociology of South Asia: Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries edited by Gowri Vijayakumar and Smitha Radhakrishnan (2022): A Review by Mamoon Bhuyan
In the edited volume Sociology of South Asia Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries (published by Springer in 2022), Gowri Vijayakumar and Smitha Radhakrishnan introduce…
Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon by Syed Farid Alatas and Vineeta Sinha (2017) A Review by Neeraj Naidu
The sociology curriculum of most universities legitimizes, institutionalizes, and reproduces not just the fact that the origin of sociology as…
Global Sociology and Building Bridges: A Conversation with Geoffrey Pleyers
Geoffrey Pleyers is an F.R.S-FNRS researcher and professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain, Belgium. He is also the…
The Role of Professional Bodies in the Development of Sociology
Bandana Purkayastha is the Vice President for National Associations in the International Sociological Association (ISA). She is a Board of…
Intersections Between Global Social Theory and Sociological Theory: A Lecture by Sujata Patel
‘ Sujata Patel has been the 2021 Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor, at Umea University, Sweden; Distinguished Professor, at Savitribai Phule…