Transnational Histories of Sociology

The session invites conceptual, methodical and empirical research contributions on the transnational history, or histories, of sociology. As suggested by Heilbron, Boncourt, Sorá 2018, and other authors, this includes a) transnational regionalization, e.g. by comparing regional spaces (such as the African, the Arab, the Asian world, Latin America, the BRICS countries, the European Union) reflecting an intermediary level between the global and national public science systems, also deploying a critical function of (social) science towards its two-fold structural dependencies; b) scholarly and non-scholarly institutional arrangements important for the transnational configuration of the history of sociology, such as the International Sociological Association, the UNESCO, scientific journals, intermediary organizations, research funding; and c) intellectuals in exile and migration of scholars.