Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology
geostein@umich.eduOffice Information:
4214 LSA Building
phone: 734.763.1225
Comparative and Historical Approaches; International Sociology; Politics and Social Change; Qualitative Approaches; Sociology of Culture; Theory, Knowledge, and Science; Sociology
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1987Highlighted Work and Publications
Sociology and Empire: The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline
George Steinmetz (ed.)
Description from Publisher: The revelation that the U.S. Department of Defense had hired anthropologists for its Human Terrain System project—assisting its operations in Afghanistan and Iraq—caused an uproar that has obscured the participation of sociologists in similar Pentagon-funded projects. As the contributors to Sociology and Empire show, such affiliations are not new. Sociologists have been active as advisers, theorists, and analysts of Western imperialism for more than a century.
The collection has a threefold agenda: to trace an intellectual history...
See MoreThe Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa
George Steinmetz
Description from Publisher:
Germany’s overseas colonial empire was relatively short lived, lasting from 1884 to 1918. During this period, dramatically different policies were enacted in the colonies: in Southwest Africa, German troops carried out a brutal slaughter of the Herero people; in Samoa, authorities pursued a paternalistic defense of native culture; in Qingdao, China, policy veered between harsh racism and cultural exchange.
Why did the same colonizing power act in such differing ways? In The Devil’s Handwriting, George Steinmetz tackles this question through...
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