Bringing the Global Home

Students Research Local Areas through Postcolonial Perspectives

Bibliographic Data

ID11064264
AuthorsR Hammer (0000-0002-2435-7480, Brown University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume46
Issue2
Pages135-147
Publication date2018-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTeaching Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0092055x17749284
OpenAlexW2777798122
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited66

This article describes a class that draws on postcolonial insights to create a global sociological imagination. Postcolonial approaches can make visible how global connections have shaped our local environments even if these relations are not always immediately visible. Specifically, students in this class highlight how global relations, such as the slave trade, settler colonialism, racial formations, or migrations, constitute the local. If we start to reconnect global ties, how do we interpret local inequalities differently? Whose voices do we fail to listen to, and why are these global linkages and histories silenced or forgotten? The article describes the development of the curriculum and local student research projects as the main class assignment. It then discusses how students grapple to understand how global ties are and always have been crucial to our everyday lives and think critically about giving voice to perspectives that have conventionally been marginalized

Class (philosophy · Colonialism · Curriculum · Epistemology · Global city · Inequality · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Law · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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