Common Skies and Divided Horizons? Sociology, Race, and Postcolonial Studies

Magubane, Zine

doi:10.1108/s0198-8719(2013)0000024010

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“…In anthropology it is hard to argue against Denzin's observations for they are confirmed repeatedly within the discipline itself. Yet, from a post-colonial (Bhambra, 2007;Henry, 2010: 56;Magubane, 2013) and "Southern" context (Connell, 2010;Reddock, 2014), such relativism might be at best a secondary consideration because, outside of cricket, the actual documentation and description of "hybrid sportoids" and "sports initially introduced during colonisation but that have (been said to have) adopted regional styles of their own" (Bale and Cronin, 2003: 4) could hardly be said to be comprehensive in the Caribbean. In the field of football in the Caribbean, for example, little has been recorded academically (McCree, 1995).…”

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confidence: 99%

Languaculture and grassroots football: “Small goal” in Trinidad

Kerrigan

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This paper provides anthropological insights into "small goal football" on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and makes a contribution to the understanding of grassroots football on an international level. The content was collected via long-term, ethnographic research. Two short descriptions are offered: one on language-in-use on the small goal football field (racial/ethnic nicknames and others words) and one on conflict on the small goal football field (what are power relations like amongst these footballing men and why?). These two descriptions and their discussion help to conceive some qualities of small goal football in Trinidad as a phenomenon, "languaculture," and social institution, and explore what small goal can mean to those taking part in it in three distinct ways. 1) We learn about the uniqueness of Trinidad social-reality, and how the scars of colonial history, such as racial hierarchy and white supremacy, are remade through sport under the banner of continuity and change. 2) We learn about sport and masculinities, and how some everyday qualities of masculinities in Trinidad, such as authority, sexism, and conflict, are both reorganized and reinforced on the field of play. 3) We see sport through the eyes of local Caribbean men who engage in small goal football, providing insight into the social institution itself, and the cultural mirror this shines on what small goal means to some local men in a suburb of western Trinidad.

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Languaculture and grassroots football: “Small goal” in Trinidad

Kerrigan

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…These works are grounded in the materiality of colonial power relations and in the structuring power of its cultural categorizations, thus linking race to colonialism and coloniality (Go 2018;Magubane 2013). Analyses of race cannot be taken out of the context that invented racial difference to begin with: as a legitimation to justify the extractive and violent relationships of colonial governance.…”

Section: Historical Sociology and Its Silencesmentioning

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Colonial Modernity in Historical Sociology

Hammer

Itzigsohn²

2021

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Racism is central to colonial modernity, a global historical project tied to colonialism and imperial governance. Racism and its diverse historical manifestations should in theory be key areas of study for historical sociology: the displacement of populations, the dispossession of lands, genocide, slavery, the coercive exploitation of workers of color, and the creation of a way of seeing people through race. Yet, historical sociological scholarship has to date failed to address how racism and colonialism have structured the modern world. This, we argue, is the result of two problems: First, historical sociology’s ontology and vision of modernity does not see colonialism as central to and constituting the modern world. Second, historical sociology’s Weberian roots produced a methodological approach that detaches theoretical categories from specific historical contexts in the pursuit of generalization. This approach cannot capture the historicity of theory and thus address the subfield’s racial structures of knowledge. As an alternative, we propose that previously silenced anticolonial sociologists provide a different model for historical sociology, one that emphasizes the centrality of colonialism and empire in the constitution of modernity and locates theoretical categories in this historical context. We argue that to overcome the racial underpinning of its knowledge structures, historical sociology has to rebuild itself in this anticolonial mode.

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“…Besides revealing the imperial unconscious of social scientific knowledge, a postcolonial approach to race also picks up three other related themes. First, it more closely examines the various connections between social science and colonial-racial knowledge (Go 2013b; Guhin and Wyrtzen 2013; Magubane 2013; Steinmetz 2009). The connections can be complex and multileveled and not as simple a matter as the racial state employing sociologists.…”

Section: For a Postcolonial Sociology Of Racementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Morris’s (2015) landmark examination of Du Bois’s relationship to mainstream sociology is the gold standard for other work that should continue this line of inquiry. Vitalis (2015) offers another model, providing us with an original analysis of how African American political scientists of the “Howard School” were sidelined by mainstream international relations theory (he also explores how international relations itself originated as an imperial racial project) (see also Magubane 2013).…”

Section: For a Postcolonial Sociology Of Racementioning

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Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race

2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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The author considers what postcolonial theory has to contribute to the sociology of race. Although there are overlaps, postcolonial theory and the sociology of race are not reducible to each other. Postcolonial theory emphasizes the global, historical, and therefore colonial dimensions of race relations, including how imperialism has generated racial thought and racial stratification. A postcolonial sociology of race, therefore, would (1) analytically recover empire and colonialism and their legacies, (2) excavate colonial racialization and trace its continuities into the present, (3) reveal the reciprocal constitution of racialized identities that began under empire, and (4) critique the imperial standpoint and seek out the subjugated epistemologies of racialized subjects. Although such a postcolonial sociology of race is a project that has yet to be fully realized, there are a number of existing sociological works that begin the journey and point us in the right direction.

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Common Skies and Divided Horizons? Sociology, Race, and Postcolonial Studies

Cited by 18 publications

References 22 publications

Languaculture and grassroots football: “Small goal” in Trinidad

Languaculture and grassroots football: “Small goal” in Trinidad

Colonial Modernity in Historical Sociology

Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race

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