Some recent books about postcolonial and anti-colonial social science, and my chapters in them:
Connell, Raewyn. 2025. Perspectivas democráticas na educação em Ciências Sociais. Pp. 41-53 in Marcelo Cigales, ed., Ensino de Ciências Sociais em perspectiva internacional. Maceió, Editora Café com Sociologia, 2025.
Connell, Raewyn. 2025. The good university. Pp.107-121 in Sinfree Makoni and Chanel van der Merwe, ed., Decolonial Options in Higher Education: Cracks and Fissures. Bristol and Jackson TN, Multilingual Matters.
Connell, Raewyn. 2025. Curriculum for revolution: Ali Shariati's Practical Plan and the radical politics of knowledge. Pp. 93-109 in Dustin J. Bird and Seyed Javad Miri, ed., Ali Shariati: Critical Social Theory and the Struggle for Decolonization. Kalamazoo MI, Ekpyrosis Press.
Gender and Global Health
7 April 2025 was the launch date for the report of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. I'm a co-author, along with the colleagues listed below - an international network, who have been working on this project since 2020. The process was interrupted and delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic - which itself brought important issues about gender and global health to the surface. The Report is a 66-page document with a main narrative and a variety of illustrative cases of policies, programmes and problems.
On the same date, The Lancet published a 'Commentary' piece by a group of the Commissioners, responding to the current situation in world health policy created by the Trump administration's withdrawal of US support for WHO and for a range of lifesaving international health programmes; its attempt to remove all the English-language words related to gender from government documents and policies; and its open hostility to women's reproductive rights, marriage equality, and trans existence. As we note in the Commentary, what is happening in the USA is paralleled or preceded in other parts of the world.
Hawkes, Sarah, Elhadj As Sy, Gary Barker, Frances Elaine Baum, Kent Buse, Angela Y Chang, Beniamino Cislaghi, Jocalyn Clark, Raewyn Connell, Morna Cornell, Gary L Darmstadt, Carmen Simone Grilo Diniz, Sharon Friel, Indrani Gupta, Sofia Gruskin, Sarah Hill, Amy Chiaying Hsieh, Renu Khanna, Jeni Klugman, Aaron Koay, Vivian Lin, Khadija T Moalla, Erica Nelson, Lynsey Robinson, Nina Schwalbe, Ravi Verma, Virginia Zarulli. 2025. Achieving Gender Justice for Global Health Equity: The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. The Lancet Commissions. Published online April 7, 2025, at https://doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(25)00488-X.
You should be able to find a copy of this report, free to download, here: https://authors.elsevier.com/
Hawkes, Sarah, Raewyn Connell, Jocalyn Clark, Jeni Klugman, Gary L Darmstadt, Erica Nelson, Amy Chiaying Hsieh, Elhadj As Sy, Gary Barker, Beniamino Cislaghi, Kent Buse. 2025. 'Gender and Global Health: Going, going, but not gone'. Comment in The Lancet, Doctopic: Analysis and Interpretation, THELANCET-D-25-01866, S0140-6736(25)00617-8 , published online April 7, 2025, at https://doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(25)00617-8.
30 years of gender studies
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
Sociology and its world, some recent publications
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/
