Blog: Critical Historical Sociology

Manali Desai The call for a ‘post-colonial’ turn in sociology in recent years has pointed to the neglect of colonial and imperialist histories that have constituted the modern world, and …

Postcolonial Sociology and the Continuing Problem of Bifurcation Read More

(Image: Angelus Novus (1920) by Paul Klee) Timothy Rutzou “The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are still possible… is not philosophical. This amazement is not the beginning …

The Historical Event: On The Brief Time of History Read More

(Photo : Mark Rolston) Ho-fung Hung Thanks to globalization, sociology has been transgressing the singular nation-state focus and paying more attention to global processes that encompass the whole world and …

Inter-Imperial Rivalry Now: Marxian and Weberian Perspectives Read More

Michael D. Kennedy, Prabhdeep S. Kehal, and Laura Garbes For Marxists, as for sociologists, reflexive efforts at historical self-understanding are often taken as narcissistic, diverting enquiry from its proper objective …

Excellence, Reflexivity, and Racism: On Sociology’s Nuclear Contradiction and Its Abiding Crisis Read More

George Steinmetz — Chair, Section in Comparative and Historical Sociology of the American Sociological Association The Need for Historical Sociologists Sociology is inherently interpretive and inescapably historical. Cultural and historical …

The crisis of history and the history of crisis: historical sociology as a “crisis science” Read More

Editors (Sahan S. Karatasli, Simeon J. Newman & Timothy Rutzou) The “Critical Historical Sociology Blog: History, Theory and Sociology in an Age of Crisis” is the official blog of the …

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