Stéphane Dufoix: Undoing Coloniality of Knowledge

Stéphane Dufoix is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris-Nanterre (Sophiapol research center) and a Senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He also teaches about world sociologies in the doctoral curriculum of the University of Paris and at the EHESS.  His research focus includes globalization theory, historical sociology of social science, sociological and historical semantics of concepts, and political sociology of national identity discourses. Among his recent publications: Le Tournant global des sciences sociales (co-edited with Alain Caillé), 2013 ; Pierre Bourdieu dans l’espace des disciplines (co-ed. with Christian Laval), 2018. Décolonial, 2023. For about years, he has been the co-coordinator (with Eric Macé and now with Marie Salaün), of a seminar devoted to non-hegemonic world sociology that is being hosted by the Collège d’études mondiales (FMSH) and the Global Research Institute of Paris (University of Paris). He has been interested in the history of sociology in the Arab world and generally speaking his work is so relevant to the Arab world. His two forthcoming books are: Transnational History of Sociology (Palgrave-McMillan); How to decolonize Sociology (Sage).