Global Dialogue, Magazine of International Sociology Association

The Dialogue of Differences: Indigenous Ideas and Western Sociology

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The discussion around decoloniality and indigenous sociology gained popularity in the 1990s; however, from the beginning, sociology in India has emphasized the importance of indigenous concepts and viewpoints. This emphasis can be traced back to two contexts: firstly, the socio-political context, and secondly, the intellectual–ideological context. A sociology founded on the interplay between the freedom struggle and Western intellectual traditions The development of sociology as an academic discipline in India began in the early twentieth century, paralleling...

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Everyday Practices of Sociology in India: Decolonizing in Retrospect

by Maitrayee Chaudhuri

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In India, the disciplines of sociology and anthropology, with their close but contested relationship, began when India was still a British colony. Linkages between colonialism and sociology in India are thus necessarily deep and complex. In recent decades, a body of scholarship on disciplinary histories as well as the relationship between anti-colonial thought and social theory has emerged. Locally within Indian sociology, however, there has been a much longer history of debate on the...

Sociology in South India

by Indira Ramarao

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The beginnings of sociology in south India can be traced to the second decade of the twentieth century. The history of sociology in south India is presented here divided into three time periods: 1900-1950, 1950-2000, and 2000-2024 (to date, at the time of writing). The regions covered are the five states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. 1900-1950 The need to gain sociological insight to understand social phenomena germinated as early as the year 1915, when the Cambridge economist Gilbert Slater came to the...

Women in Indian Sociology: Feminist Contributions, Pedagogy, and Praxis

by Arvinder Ansari

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The evolution of Indian sociology has been deeply influenced by the intellectual legacies of colonialism, nationalism, and modernity. These historical processes favored certain ways of creating knowledge, which often aligned with patriarchal, Brahmanical, and Eurocentric views. Additionally, these historical processes frequently excluded alternative modes of knowledge and marginalized subaltern perspectives. Within these dominant structures, women were predominantly positioned as subjects of sociological study rather than as knowledge producers or theorists in their own right. Their roles were...

Rethinking Social Movement Studies from India

by Shruti Tambe

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The sociology of social movements developed as a field in the second half of the twentieth century in the Western academic world. In the 1960s, this subfield of sociology was very popular worldwide, including in India. In fact, the sociology of social movements arose at the time of decolonisation around the world. Is it an accident that the rise and success of anti-colonial movements and the rise in the popularity of the sociology of social movements coincided? I argue that the many different protests and anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, and anti-race movements inspired the rise of a...

Far-Right Normalization and the Radicalized Mainstream

by Sabrina Zajak, Emanuele Toscano, Anna-Maria Meuth

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Many democracies around the globe have seen tremendous changes to their principles and core values which are ongoing: what has always been labeled as the far-right has stopped being the far-away right and become the new normal, the mainstream. Ethno-nationalist, authoritarian, anti-migrant, sexist and anti-plural ideologies have captured key positions in societies. Far-right actors occupy positions in the economic and political elites, but they also mobilize through grassroots movements and insta-influencers alike. Many years of mainstreaming and mobilization has put the far-right ideologies...

From “Radical” Right to Mainstream Right: A Shifting European Party System

by Terri Givens

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One of the trends I have seen since I began studying the radical right in the mid-1990s is that ideas that were seen as “radical” back then have become mainstream. As I was working on my first book on the radical right, many researchers discouraged me, since they considered radical right parties a “flash in the pan.” However, these parties have become a persistent force in the electoral landscape. As I noted in my book, The Roots of Racism, “Right-wing politics casts immigrants as foreign...

From the Margins to the Feed: Platformed Mainstreaming of the Far Right

by Damla Keşkekci

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Once confined to the fringes, far-right actors increasingly try to reposition themselves as normalized, legitimate actors within the political mainstream. Together with Liriam Sponholz, in the study “Radicalizing the Mainstream in Western Europe,” we explore how the far right in Germany – comprising various actors from political parties to alternative media and social movements – strategically uses hyperlinks on Facebook. Drawing on a dataset of over 120,000 posts from 100 public Facebook pages (2017–2020) ...

Optimizing Masculinity: Men’s Self-Improvement Networks and Ideological Battlegrounds

by Pasha Dashtgard

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Introduction There are fewer and fewer places online geared toward boys and men that are free from the influence of male supremacist ideology. Many of these male-centered spaces, which originally emerged as places to find advice, support, and camaraderie, have instead become breeding grounds for radicalization. Whether in dating and relationship forums, fitness and fashion communities, or gaming and sports discussion boards, hateful sexist rhetoric is becoming increasingly normalized. Subtly embedding reactionary beliefs with seemingly apolitical or self-improvement-focused...

The Weaponization of Fashion by the Far Right

by Andrea Grippo

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The collective action of the far right has undergone a profound transformation. Alongside direct political confrontation, cultural strategies focused on symbolic, aesthetic, and performative content have significantly expanded. Far-right actors now seek to reshape collective imaginaries, redefine cultural belonging, and influence everyday life through lifestyle practices. The changing role of fashion within the far right Fashion has emerged as one of the far right’s most effective tools in this battle for the cultural hegemony, offering a medium through...

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