Postcolonial sociology as a remedy for global diffusion theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3444530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zophia Edwards (0000-0001-6856-066X, Providence College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1179-1195 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038026120916132 |
| OpenAlex | W3023755188 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 67 |
The dominant theoretical approaches that aim to explain the origins and subsequent global diffusion of modern norms, practices, and institutions have reached an impasse. World polity theory and 'coercion' perspectives describe a process in which norms originate in the Global North and spread to the rest of the world. For the former, diffusion occurs via the willful imitation of shared values; for the latter, it occurs due to economic/political pressure and/or force. However, both approaches are unable to account for norms that emerge in the Global South and get adopted globally. This article argues that postcolonial sociology can help overcome the common pitfalls of the existing theories and provide a theoretical framework for analyzing global diffusion through its analytical focus on subaltern agency, 'relationalism,' and colonial contours of power. The utility of postcolonial sociology is demonstrated using archival data and an historical analysis of the 1938 Trade Disputes (Arbitration and Inquiry) Ordinance, which emerged in Trinidad and Tobago and was subsequently adopted by a number of colonies across the British empire
Agency (philosophy) · Coercion (linguistics) · Colonialism · Economics · Empire · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Polity · Positive economics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Subaltern · Symbolic power · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Developmentalism as Internationalism
Beyond the binary
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory
Measuring and Harmonising Coverage, Generosity and History of Work‐Injury Policies Globally
“She Can Get a Visa”
Anticolonial thought, the sociological imagination, and social science
The origins of Ethiopia's primary health care expansion
What kind of a theory is the medium durée
Unsettling West-centrism in the study of professional service firms
Decolonizing the Global
The journey of subalternity in Gayatri Spivak's work
Markets Everywhere
The United States in the World Today
Capitalism and Slavery
National Interests in International Society
The Emergence of an Industrial Labor Force in India
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Ruling the World
Constructing World Culture
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development
The IMF and Economic Development
Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory
Lineages of Despotism and Development
Forces of Labor
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development
The Retreat of the State
Culture, Society and the Media
Overlapping Territories and Intertwined Histories
Violence and Colonial Order
The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism
Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Post-Colonial Africa
Race and Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago
Decolonization and African Society
Local variation in world society
Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital
Oil, imperial policy and the Trinidad disturbances, 1937
Intervention and colonial-modernity
Historical Sociology, Modernity, and Postcolonial Critique
Getting a Seat at the Table
Decolonizing European Sociology
Norm Subsidiarity and Regional Orders
Introduction
Human rights, principled issue-networks, and sovereignty in Latin America
International organizations as teachers of norms
The Foreign Imposition of Domestic Institutions
Latin American Countries as Norm Protagonists of the Idea of International Human Rights
Southern Pioneers of International Development
A New Model for Information Diffusion in Heterogeneous Social Networks
Connected Sociologies
How Ideas Spread
Global International Relations (IR) and Regional Worlds
Rethinking Modernity
Cross-National Cultural Diffusion
"Prelude to Imperialism"1
Social networks and country-to-country transfer
From Dependency to Sovereignty
Labor, Agency, and State-building in Trinidad and Tobago
The Globalization of Liberalization
Racialized capitalism
From Pariah State to Global Protagonist
World Expansion of Mass Education, 1870-1980
The Importance of Relationship Timing for Diffusion
Comparative Historical Sociology and the State
The global development of contemporary anti-human trafficking advocacy
Globalization
Beyond Binaries
Diffusion in Organizations and Social Movements
Chains of Affection
World Society and the Nation-State
Social Contagion and Innovation
Institutionalized Organizations
For a postcolonial sociology
Institutional conditions for diffusion
| Unique citing works | 13 |
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| Citations per year | 2,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |