TY - JOUR
T1 - At the Margins: Challenges for Sociologists of Education in Southern Europe
AU - Santagati, Mariagrazia
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The aim of this Special Issue of the Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, published at the same time of the n. 3/2019 of RASE (Revista de
Sociología de la educación), is to reflect on Sociology of Education from
a Southern European perspective. Undoubtedly, the starting point is the
well-consolidated international debate on the so-called “Theories of the
South” (Connell, 2007) or “Epistemologies of the South” (Santos, 2007), and
the call for a “Global Sociology” (Burawoy, 2016) also in a postcolonial perspective (Bhambra, 2014). These approaches have made visible the need to
seek new theoretical and empirical contributions to think about the social
realities of the Global South outside the Euro-American area, which as arisen
over the last 40 years in response to social movements and to the emergence
of different sociological voices all around the world.
We believe it is time to consider whether a Southern analysis of educational problems should be suggested, both at the European level and in each
country of the EU, considering the many ‘Souths’ within the ‘Norths’. We
would not like to foster North-South divisions inside or outside the scientific
community or social life. On the contrary, we propose to discover and widen
the possibilities of international dialogue among Sociologists of Education,
deconstructing and going beyond this presupposed divide.
AB - The aim of this Special Issue of the Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, published at the same time of the n. 3/2019 of RASE (Revista de
Sociología de la educación), is to reflect on Sociology of Education from
a Southern European perspective. Undoubtedly, the starting point is the
well-consolidated international debate on the so-called “Theories of the
South” (Connell, 2007) or “Epistemologies of the South” (Santos, 2007), and
the call for a “Global Sociology” (Burawoy, 2016) also in a postcolonial perspective (Bhambra, 2014). These approaches have made visible the need to
seek new theoretical and empirical contributions to think about the social
realities of the Global South outside the Euro-American area, which as arisen
over the last 40 years in response to social movements and to the emergence
of different sociological voices all around the world.
We believe it is time to consider whether a Southern analysis of educational problems should be suggested, both at the European level and in each
country of the EU, considering the many ‘Souths’ within the ‘Norths’. We
would not like to foster North-South divisions inside or outside the scientific
community or social life. On the contrary, we propose to discover and widen
the possibilities of international dialogue among Sociologists of Education,
deconstructing and going beyond this presupposed divide.
KW - Sociologists of Education
KW - Southern Europe
KW - Sociologists of Education
KW - Southern Europe
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/149682
UR - https://ijse.padovauniversitypress.it/2019/3/1
U2 - 10.14658/pupj-ijse-2019-3-1
DO - 10.14658/pupj-ijse-2019-3-1
M3 - Article
SN - 2035-4983
VL - 11
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Italian Journal of Sociology of Education
JF - Italian Journal of Sociology of Education
ER -