30 years of gender studies: anniversary special issue from "La Ventana", the journal of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Has thoughtful pieces by a range of scholars, from Mexico and beyond. I have an article in it, about the global picture. All open access!
https://revistalaventana.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/LV/issue/view/699
Connell, Raewyn. 2024. Sociology for a decolonized world. Pp. 27-43 in Eric Macé, ed., An Invitation to Non-Hegemonic World Sociology. Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield.
Rodney D. Coates, Anwubiko Agozino, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Ali Meghji, Julian Go, José Itzigsohn, Raewyn Connell, Sari Hanafi. 2024. Decolonizing Sociology: In Pursuit of Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring. Chapter 4, pp. 73-102 in Corey Dolgon, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice, Oxford University Press.
And for an account of Raewyn as a sociologist, from go to whoa, in response to three questions from the Kohli Foundation: How did you get into Sociology? What makes you sociologically curious? What challenges does sociology face as a science? Here are my answers:
https://kohlifoundation.eu/3-questions-for/3-questions-for-raewyn-connell/
Readers interested in questions about masculinities, men's gender practices and the continuing problems of inequality and injustice in gender relations: I can recommend this just-published analysis of how the concept of hegemonic masculinity arose, and how it developed. It's based on thorough scholarship and unrivalled knowledge of the field.
James W. Messerschmidt and Tristan Bridges, Legitimation as linchpin: On Raewyn Connell’s changing conceptualization of ‘hegemonic masculinity’, International Review of Sociology, published online 4 September 2024, at https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2024.238861
I'm delighted to say that my book Southern Theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science has just been translated into Chinese, and published by Jiangsu People's Publishing House (copyright 2023).
And that the symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1973 feminist issue of AJS has also been published. This is my contribution:
Connell, Raewyn. 2023. Six revolutions and perhaps a funeral. In Symposium: Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50. American Journal of Sociology, vol. 129 no. 3, 925-931.
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