The Global Sociology Blog

Le télézapping de l’année
by lemondefr

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In addition to his book, Virgil Hawkins created a blog on the topic of Stealth Conflicts. It is a great addition of up to date info and data on these conflicts (and maybe a way to publish materials that did not make it into the book). For instance, compare these two maps which neatly illustrate [...]

For the non-French among you, the pun in the title will escape you but for those of us who survived the Chirac presidential campaigns and presidency only thanks to Les Guignols De L’Info, we all remember that the social fracture was Chirac’s big theme (not he did much about it, like any good conservative). [...]

As members of the Bush administration are running their final lap on a variety of shows to defend their legacy, especially concerning Iraq, it is necessary to remember that things are definitely worse for women and girls there (although we already know they don’t count, really):

"Sheelan Anwar Omer, a shy 7-year-old Kurdish girl, bounded into [...]

David Korten is one of my favorite authors and When Corporations Rule The World is a must-read and now considered a modern classic on globalization. Now, he has a blog:

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Virgil Hawkins’s Stealth Conflicts – How The World’s Worst Violence is Ignored is a necessary book that dispels quite a few myths regarding the current world’s conflicts.
While the world is currently focused on the collective punishment Israel is inflicting on the Gaza strip, and as 2008 draws to an end, there is not [...]

After the announced demise of the Washington Consensus, down goes the Chicago School of Economics:

"Some time ago, I asked if “Milton Friedman was the next economist whose once lauded reputation may soon slide ?”
Turns out it happened much quicker than expected. A long Bloomberg piece, Friedman Would Be Roiled as Chicago Disciples Rue Repudiation, [...]

As bad as it is, why does this…

Plus de 200 morts dans les raids israéliens à Gaza – Tout savoir sur les dernières actualités politiques, monde, société, sports, écologie avec le journal en ligne Libération via kwout

Get more coverage than this?

Year of the hungry: 1,000,000,000 afflicted – World Politics, World – The Independent via kwout

For [...]

Samuel Huntington est mort – Tout savoir sur les dernières actualités politiques, monde, société, sports, écologie avec le journal en ligne Libération via kwout

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This is my review / summary of Micheline Ishay’s article in Globalizations , "Promoting Human Rights in the Era of Globalization and Interventions: The Changing Spaces of Struggle," December 2004, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 181-193.
A lot of discussions on globalization have revolved around the question of space. What spatial dimensions are relevant in the [...]

It must be what the US government is thinking since it decided to promote institutionalized rape, otherwise, what would be the point of this?

"The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His [...]

Baptiste Coulmont has a sociological puzzle that needs solving. Can anyone help him?
Here it is: sociology does not tackle great fictions – such as "secularization", "individualism" or bourgeoisie" – directly to describe and explain society (here’s another one right there). However, the sociologist relies on indicators. For instance, one can use the number of baptisms [...]

As the year draws to a close, here is an issue that will still need fighting in 2009: slavery.

BBC NEWS | Africa | ‘Thousands made slaves’ in Darfur via kwout

I have to say that this is sadly not surprising. As anyone who has read Kevin Bales books on the subject knows, social disintegration and brutal [...]

It seems that Somalia now represents the nexus or ground zero of the world disorder. Two articles independently describe the situation there in pretty much the same terms.

Somalia: A Symbol of the Decaying World Order – Worldpress.org via kwout

And here as well:

‘Just World News’ with Helena Cobban: Somalia and an international community in disarray [...]

Having read and deeply enjoyed Jim Fergus’s One Thousand White Women, I decided to read his other novel, The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932. The structure of the book is very similar to OTWW: we follow the story through the eyes of the main character as he writes his observations in [...]