Some recent books about postcolonial and anti-colonial social science, and my chapters in them:
Connell, Raewyn. 2025. Perspectivas democráticas na educação em Ciências Sociais. Pp. 41-53 in Marcelo Cigales, ed., Ensino de Ciências Sociais em perspectiva internacional. Maceió, Editora Café com Sociologia, 2025.
Connell, Raewyn. 2025. The good university. Pp.107-121 in Sinfree Makoni and Chanel van der Merwe, ed., Decolonial Options in Higher Education: Cracks and Fissures. Bristol and Jackson TN, Multilingual Matters.
Connell, Raewyn. 2025. Curriculum for revolution: Ali Shariati's Practical Plan and the radical politics of knowledge. Pp. 93-109 in Dustin J. Bird and Seyed Javad Miri, ed., Ali Shariati: Critical Social Theory and the Struggle for Decolonization. Kalamazoo MI, Ekpyrosis Press.
Social Science
This is the second in a very occasional series of posts discussing the following proposition: in the English-speaking world, the last 50 years has seen a dramatic increase in the quantity and quality of text and visual mass media intended for children. The first post, on kids’ animated cartoons, is here. As noted in that […]
Cabo Verde is not a rich country. To have an idea, the minimum wage is €130 a month and a meal in a restaurant costs around €10. The IMF classifies Cabo Verde as a developing country. Development has long ceased to be defined in exclusively economic terms. In 1990, a “human development index” was introduced, […]
Thesis: in the English-speaking world, the last 50 years has seen a dramatic increase in the quantity *and quality* of text and visual mass media intended for children. Let’s define some terms. I’m talking about books, cartoons, TV, and movies. Music is not included; comics and graphic novels are a special case. When I say […]
In my academic job, I’ve just started a new 5-year project called ‘Visions for the future‘. In the first year of the project, I’ll tackle some methodological questions, including working out the discussion we had here some years ago on normative audits, and the question what ‘synthetic political philosophy’ is (on which Eric also has, […]
My COVID-19-self-isolation reading for the last
few days has been a terrific new book by Terry Irving, The Fatal Lure of
Politics. It's the biography of a
remarkable intellectual, Vere Gordon Childe, who's definitely one of my heroes.
Just announced: I'm being given the International Sociological Association's Award for Excellence in Research and Practice. This award is given once every 4 years; it's a great honour. My thanks to the ISA! And to the many, many colleagues & friends I have worked with, over the years.
The social science I value is engaged in the world, it doesn't watch from a distance. It's empirical and utopian. It's willing to explore questions ranging from personal life to global empire. It doesn't flinch from issues of violence and power. But it also asks how new and better possibilities emerge.
Hello! My name is Kevin Munger, and I’m delighted to have gotten the call up to the blogging big leagues. I’ve been blogging since the beginning of the pandemic at Never Met a Science, a combination of meta-science (get it) and media theory that I intend to continue here. Crooked Timber has been around for […]