Z Baber
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1677 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Z Baber |
| PRENOMES | Z |
| SOBRENOME | Baber |
| ASSINATURA | BABER Z |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0256-1974 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 135 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
“Why?”
Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities. Without hesitating to connect the “is” to the “ought,” they also provided “big picture” accounts of the seamless an…
Socialist Mayor in the Capital of Global Capitalism
The dramatic election of Zohran Mamdani as the incoming Mayor of New York city provides a rare ray of progressive hope in bleak times. In this contribution, a “big picture” account and analyses of some of the structural and ideological factors that contributed to Mamdani’s victory, is offered. The deindustrialization of manufacturing in the United States, the disappearance of stable jobs, the struggle to make ends meet made the working people of …
“They talk and talk, they sell and sell … the victory of the technician over the intellectual”
In this article, the conceptual antecedents of the neoliberal university in the prescient writings of C. Wright Mills identified, explicated and discussed. His detailed observations of and analysis of the transformations in the structure, form, and mode of knowledge production in the universities of his time provide insights into the social dynamics of the genesis of the global neoliberal academy much before the term gained currency. Drawing upon…
‘Class and “Race”. . . the two antinomic poles of a permanent dialectic’
Despite the pervasive social constructivist turn, regardless of some exceptions, discussions of race, racialization and racism continue to focus on the relatively essentialist White/non-White binary. In this article, I move from the White/non-White binary to consider the dynamics and practices of racialization, racism and racial conflicts in Japan where there are no phenotypical distinctions between the dominant and the main racialized minority g…
The Catastrophic World
Race might be a unicorn, but its horn could draw blood
In this article, the concepts of 'racialisation', 'racial projects', and 'racisms' are deployed to analyse the social construction of distinctive groups and the dynamics of group conflicts in India where the white vs. non-white binary as the key element of race relations does not exist. My main argument is that in India the racialisation of specific groups constructs racial categories that intersect with class relations, to produce inequalities a…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 4
Beyond the Cultural Competence Paradigm and contradictory tensions stemming from the multiple identities that constitute each person and community.It also demonstrated the ways in which structural conditions such as chronic poverty, language barriers, and vulnerability to immigration control are tied to gender, race, and class, categories that would later expand across other identities as the concept of intersectionality rapidly diffused across m…
The Plants of Empire
In this article, the multifaceted relationship between colonial power and scientific knowledge is analysed. The specific focus is on untangling the contested and symbiotic connections between colonialism and the emergence and consolidation of aspects of botanical science. Colonial imperatives and the social consequences of colonial rule in India constituted the context for the idea and project of botanical gardens that facilitated the global tran…
The promise of Occupy
The Occupy Wall Street movement caught many analysts of social protest by surprise. Although there were isolated social protests against social inequality and disenfranchisement in many parts of the world, the Occupy movement as a global phenomenon was unprecedented. In this review essay, three recent books that focus on the social context that contributed to the Occupy Wall Street movement are discussed. The role of anarchism in imparting the di…
Public transportation in an era of neo‐liberal privatization – the Delhi Metro
Colin Campbell, The Easternization of the West
A Name for a Stray Dog - Global Civil Society
Globalization, nostalgia, and the university
“An Undifferentiated Mass of Gray Goo?” Nanotechnology and Society
Race', Religion and Riots
This article offers an alternative framework for understanding 'communal' conflict in India. Largely because recurring sectarian conflicts involve groups whose boundaries are demarcated by religion, most scholars have focused their attention on either specific religious doctrines or the policy of secularism to explain the phenomenon. In this article it is argued that significance of religion, secularism or anti-secularism has been overemphasized …
New Media, New Politics? The Internet and the Prospects for Digital Democracy
Disability Protests
Part and parcel to the civil rights movements of the past thirty years has been a sustained, coordinated effort among Americans to secure equal rights and equal access to that of non-disabled people. Beyond merely providing a history of this movement, Sharon Barnartt and Richard Scotch's Disability Protests: Contentious Politics, 1970-1999 offers an incisive, sociological analysis of thirty years of protests, organization, and legislative victori…
Provincial Universalism
In this article, the politics of the international division of intellectual labour in an age of globalization is examined. Despite globalization of a number of ideas and institutions, the landscape of knowledge production in the social sciences continues to be dominated by scholars located in developed countries. One characteristic of the prevailing division of intellectual labour is the fact that the knowledge produced by scholars in the develop…
Orientalism, Occidentalism, Nativism
Globalization and Scientific Research
The specific nature and dynamic of the emerging triple helix of state-industry-university relations in Japan and Singapore is analyzed in this article. The impact of globalization and the emergence of trans-disciplinary scientific fields on this institutional reconstitution are examined. Overall, the implications of these transformations for the debates over the knowledge society are discussed
Modernization theory and the Cold War
In this article the structural, political and intellectual context in which a specific discourse of development emerged is examined. In the context of the Cold War, the prolonged effort of American intellectuals in advising and attempting to redirect the process of development in India and its consequences for a particular version of modernization theory is analyzed. A general sociology of knowledge approach is deployed to examine the complex con…
Ambiguous Legacy
In this article, the impact of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions on the sociology of science is evaluated. The main argument is that a questionable construction of Kuhn’s work heralded the constructivist revolution that ultimately contributed to the division between sociology of science and sociology of scientific knowledge. A reorientation of sociology of science that combines institutional and constructivist perspectives is …
Religious Nationalism, Violence and the Hindutva Movement in India
The Science of Empire
Communal conflict and the nostalgic imagination in India
The recent critique and outright dismissal of the concept and practice of secularism has not been informed by sustained historical and sociological analysis of Indian society. Critics of secularism have taken their theoretical and Indological abstractions too seriously and have paid scant attention to the complex relationship between ideologies and changing social structures and institutions. Their one-dimensional focus on religion per se has obs…
Provincial Universalism
In this article, the politics of the international division of intellectual labour in an age of globalization is examined. Despite globalization of a number of ideas and institutions, the landscape of knowledge production in the social sciences continues to be dominated by scholars located in developed countries. One characteristic of the prevailing division of intellectual labour is the fact that the knowledge produced by scholars in the develop…
Race', Religion and Riots
This article offers an alternative framework for understanding 'communal' conflict in India. Largely because recurring sectarian conflicts involve groups whose boundaries are demarcated by religion, most scholars have focused their attention on either specific religious doctrines or the policy of secularism to explain the phenomenon. In this article it is argued that significance of religion, secularism or anti-secularism has been overemphasized …
The Plants of Empire
In this article, the multifaceted relationship between colonial power and scientific knowledge is analysed. The specific focus is on untangling the contested and symbiotic connections between colonialism and the emergence and consolidation of aspects of botanical science. Colonial imperatives and the social consequences of colonial rule in India constituted the context for the idea and project of botanical gardens that facilitated the global tran…
Modernization theory and the Cold War
In this article the structural, political and intellectual context in which a specific discourse of development emerged is examined. In the context of the Cold War, the prolonged effort of American intellectuals in advising and attempting to redirect the process of development in India and its consequences for a particular version of modernization theory is analyzed. A general sociology of knowledge approach is deployed to examine the complex con…
Race might be a unicorn, but its horn could draw blood
In this article, the concepts of 'racialisation', 'racial projects', and 'racisms' are deployed to analyse the social construction of distinctive groups and the dynamics of group conflicts in India where the white vs. non-white binary as the key element of race relations does not exist. My main argument is that in India the racialisation of specific groups constructs racial categories that intersect with class relations, to produce inequalities a…
Religious Nationalism, Violence and the Hindutva Movement in India
Communal conflict and the nostalgic imagination in India
The recent critique and outright dismissal of the concept and practice of secularism has not been informed by sustained historical and sociological analysis of Indian society. Critics of secularism have taken their theoretical and Indological abstractions too seriously and have paid scant attention to the complex relationship between ideologies and changing social structures and institutions. Their one-dimensional focus on religion per se has obs…
Sociology of scientific knowledge
Beyond the Structure/Agency Dualism
In this paper an evaluation of Giddens'theory of structuration is focused on two related issues: first, the degree to which Giddens provides a theory of action which transcends the structure/agency dualism and, second, whether such a transcendence is possible. In the first instance, it is demonstrated that Giddens exaggerates the powers of agents at the expense of structural constraints. Second, it is argued that transcendence of structure/agency…
Beyond Hyper-Constructivist Fads and Foibles
L'A. passe en revue toutes les perspectives qui ont vu le jour dans le domaine de la sociologie de la science. Il montre comment Robert Merton dans les annees 1930, a partir d'une analyse weberienne, fit faire a la discipline ses premiers pas, que la theorie marxiste s'est constituee spontanement en paradigme dans ce domaine. Il examine ensuite les contributions de Kuhn, la perspective constructiviste de Woolgar et Ashmore, celle d'Aronowitz qui …
The promise of Occupy
The Occupy Wall Street movement caught many analysts of social protest by surprise. Although there were isolated social protests against social inequality and disenfranchisement in many parts of the world, the Occupy movement as a global phenomenon was unprecedented. In this review essay, three recent books that focus on the social context that contributed to the Occupy Wall Street movement are discussed. The role of anarchism in imparting the di…
Public transportation in an era of neo‐liberal privatization – the Delhi Metro
A Name for a Stray Dog - Global Civil Society
Globalization, nostalgia, and the university
Orientalism, Occidentalism, Nativism
The New Production of Knowledge
Beyond the Structure/Agency Dualism
In this paper an evaluation of Giddens'theory of structuration is focused on two related issues: first, the degree to which Giddens provides a theory of action which transcends the structure/agency dualism and, second, whether such a transcendence is possible. In the first instance, it is demonstrated that Giddens exaggerates the powers of agents at the expense of structural constraints. Second, it is argued that transcendence of structure/agency…
Sociology of scientific knowledge
Beyond Hyper-Constructivist Fads and Foibles
L'A. passe en revue toutes les perspectives qui ont vu le jour dans le domaine de la sociologie de la science. Il montre comment Robert Merton dans les annees 1930, a partir d'une analyse weberienne, fit faire a la discipline ses premiers pas, que la theorie marxiste s'est constituee spontanement en paradigme dans ce domaine. Il examine ensuite les contributions de Kuhn, la perspective constructiviste de Woolgar et Ashmore, celle d'Aronowitz qui …
The New Production of Knowledge
The Vulnerable Planet
The ecological crisis ecological conditions before the Industrial Revolution the environment at the time of the Industrial Revolution expansion and conservation imperialism and ecology the vulnerable planet new afterword
After ayodhya
The Science of Empire
The Science of Empire
The Science of Empire
The Science of Empire
Communal conflict and the nostalgic imagination in India
The recent critique and outright dismissal of the concept and practice of secularism has not been informed by sustained historical and sociological analysis of Indian society. Critics of secularism have taken their theoretical and Indological abstractions too seriously and have paid scant attention to the complex relationship between ideologies and changing social structures and institutions. Their one-dimensional focus on religion per se has obs…
Ambiguous Legacy
In this article, the impact of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions on the sociology of science is evaluated. The main argument is that a questionable construction of Kuhn’s work heralded the constructivist revolution that ultimately contributed to the division between sociology of science and sociology of scientific knowledge. A reorientation of sociology of science that combines institutional and constructivist perspectives is …
Religious Nationalism, Violence and the Hindutva Movement in India
Globalization and Scientific Research
The specific nature and dynamic of the emerging triple helix of state-industry-university relations in Japan and Singapore is analyzed in this article. The impact of globalization and the emergence of trans-disciplinary scientific fields on this institutional reconstitution are examined. Overall, the implications of these transformations for the debates over the knowledge society are discussed
Modernization theory and the Cold War
In this article the structural, political and intellectual context in which a specific discourse of development emerged is examined. In the context of the Cold War, the prolonged effort of American intellectuals in advising and attempting to redirect the process of development in India and its consequences for a particular version of modernization theory is analyzed. A general sociology of knowledge approach is deployed to examine the complex con…
Orientalism, Occidentalism, Nativism
New Media, New Politics? The Internet and the Prospects for Digital Democracy
Disability Protests
Part and parcel to the civil rights movements of the past thirty years has been a sustained, coordinated effort among Americans to secure equal rights and equal access to that of non-disabled people. Beyond merely providing a history of this movement, Sharon Barnartt and Richard Scotch's Disability Protests: Contentious Politics, 1970-1999 offers an incisive, sociological analysis of thirty years of protests, organization, and legislative victori…
Provincial Universalism
In this article, the politics of the international division of intellectual labour in an age of globalization is examined. Despite globalization of a number of ideas and institutions, the landscape of knowledge production in the social sciences continues to be dominated by scholars located in developed countries. One characteristic of the prevailing division of intellectual labour is the fact that the knowledge produced by scholars in the develop…
“An Undifferentiated Mass of Gray Goo?” Nanotechnology and Society
Race', Religion and Riots
This article offers an alternative framework for understanding 'communal' conflict in India. Largely because recurring sectarian conflicts involve groups whose boundaries are demarcated by religion, most scholars have focused their attention on either specific religious doctrines or the policy of secularism to explain the phenomenon. In this article it is argued that significance of religion, secularism or anti-secularism has been overemphasized …
Globalization, nostalgia, and the university
A Name for a Stray Dog - Global Civil Society
Colin Campbell, The Easternization of the West
Public transportation in an era of neo‐liberal privatization – the Delhi Metro
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