Decentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World aims to go beyond the traditional criticism in comparative analysis. It wants to shed new light on the question of comparing as a form of categorizing. In this perspective, three relevant dimensions to question the naturalized categories of comparison are mobilized: ethnocentrism, the nation, and academic disciplines. Based on original empirical work, the volume proposes to use comparative categories by mixing and shifting the analytical perspectives. It brings together contributions that come to terms with the historicity of the comparative method in the social sciences. It eventually deals with the key issue of comparability of various cases, in the enlarged context of a globalizing world. Contributors are: Anna Amelina, Camille Boullier, Catherine Cavalin, Serge Ebersold, Andreas Eckert, Mouhamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, Isabel Georges, Olivier Giraud, Aïssa Kadri, Wiebke Keim, Michel Lallement, Marie Mercat-Bruns, Luis Felipe Murillo, Kiran Klaus Patel, Léa Renard, Ferruccio Ricciardi, Paul-André Rosental, Pablo Salazar-Jaramillo, Stéphanie Tawa-Lama, Nikola Tietze, Tania Toffanin, Michel Vincent and Bénédicte Zimmermann.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Decentering comparative analysis and beyond Olivier Giraud, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Michel Lallement, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Part 1. Varying the analytical scale 2. Decentering comparison, questioning holism: The multi-sited ethnographic approach Luis Felipe Murillo, University of Virginia - Charlottesville 3. Close comparison in a global world: Categorizing the quality of work in a multinational company Bénédicte Zimmermann, EHESS, Paris, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin Léa Renard, Freie Universität Berlin 4. Decentering comparative strategies in cross-border studies: Towards a comparative analysis of scale making within assemblages Anna Amelina, Universität Cottbus 5. Engaging in a dialogue - An experiment in comparative employment Law Marie Mercat-Bruns, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 6. Which decentered methodological framework is best for comparing inclusive education policies? Serge Ebersold, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 7. Spectral comparisons: universalization, generalization, and the resource curse Pablo Jaramillo, Universidad de los Andes – Bogota Part 2. Comparison: A historical phenomena and the social sciences 8. The rise of comparison and the rise of the New Deal order Kiran Klaus Patel, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich 9. Silicosis as a test case for the decentering of medical and labor history Paul-André Rosental, Science Po, CFR- EHESS, Paris Catherine Cavalin, Irisso-CNRS-Université Paris Dauphine Michel Vincent, Minapath Développement 10. Homo Africanus vs homo œconomicus: looking back and forth Mohamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, LASP-D, Saint-Louis du Sénégal 11. The rise and strength of authoritarian restoration – Constructing a comparative logic for research Wiebke Keim, Sage-CNRS, Strasbourg 12. Comparing the Social and Spatial Inscription of Women’s Work Tania Toffanin, Università degli Studi, Padova 13. Categoring difference: labor and the colonial experience Ferruccio Ricciardi, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Part 3. Building commensurable universes for comparative analysis: Opportunities and constraints 14. Comparative Research Between France and India: A View from Within Stéphanie Tawa-Lama Rewal, EHESS, Paris 15. Comparability and conditions of comparability in education. Globalization of education: economist ethnocentrism versus culturalist singularism Aïssa Kadri, Université Paris 8 16. Comparing imagined transnational communities in France and Germany, or Playing national and European categories – religion, language, territory – at their own game Nikola Tietze, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg 17. Communities, organization of work, and institutional mediation: comparing the United States and France Camille Boullier, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Michel Lallement, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 18. On the crossroads of territorialities and temporalities: the making of social politics in Brazil Isabel Georges, IRD-UMR 201 Développement et societies, Paris 19. Entangled politicizations. Democracy against the market in long-term care policies Olivier Giraud, Lise, CNRS-Cnam, Paris Concluding remarks Andreas Eckert, Humbold University Berlin