The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology

Gurminder K. Bhambra is a professor of postcolonial and decolonial studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. Previously, she was a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick and has held visiting positions at EHESS Paris, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, and Concurrences Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Sweden. Her publications include Connected Sociologies (Bloomsbury, 2014) andRethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination (Palgrave, 2007), which won the 2008 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. She set up the Global Social Theory (globalsocialtheory.org) website and is coeditor of Discover Society (discoversociety.org). Her website is gkbhambra.net.

Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on asylum, human rights, policy-making, and the legacies of colonialism.

Kathryn Medien is a Lecturer in Sociology based in the Sociology Department at the Open University. Her research interests are in social and political theory, particularly anti-colonial thought and feminist theory.

Mara Viveros-Vigoya is Full Professor in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the National University of Colombia, where she has taught in the Department of Anthropology (1998-2017) and in the School of Gender Studies, of which she is co-founder and has been its director three times.