New Book: Southern Attitudes in the Social Sciences, edited by Claudio Pinheiro & Peggy Levitt

The GDC community is excited to share a new book from members of our community.

The book, Southern Attitudes in the Social Sciences, grows out of a collective engagement with a Southern Attitude: a commitment to recognizing and interrogating different regimes of privilege including whiteness, androcentrism, Christian-centrism and heteronormativity that categorize hegemonic Northern scientific structures. Edited by Claudio Pinheiro and Peggy Levitt, the book critically explores intersecting forms of discrimination such as racism, sexism, casteism, xenophobia, or social class discriminations in the social sciences and science in general. The South is portrayed as a moral geography affected by multidimensional and entangled inequalities rather than a mere spatial realm mapped by Cartesian coordinates. A Southern Attitude, therefore, is not just another sociological theory; it is an invitation to develop a renewed ethics and praxis for individuals and institutions. Nor is it the sole scope of Southern scholars. All who believe that scholarship should help create a more equitable society, no matter where they live, are welcome.

For more information on the book and to purchase it, visit sagepub.com.