Workshop 3

TACKLING SOCIOLOGY’S METHODOLOGICAL NATIONALISM

Session chairs: Peter Holley (University of Helsinki) and Marco Caselli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

This session welcomes both theoretical and methodological papers that focus on the challenges associated with methodological nationalism in the social sciences. We seek contributions that endeavour to advance a sociological perspective that extends beyond the methodological nationalist gaze, tackling social and political phenomena and identities that, while often locally experienced, span the globe. These may include, for example, post-colonial perspectives on ‘race’ and racism or the rise of global social and political movements (e.g. the sans papiers movement or radical right wing populism). Furthermore, the convenors encourage contributions that seek to develop methodologies which address such phenomena at different analytic scales.

Key concepts: Methodological nationalism, sociological theory, methodology, social and political movements.

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