Social Ontology, Sociocultures, and Inequality in the Global South

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1 Introduction
2 Rethinking the social: social ontology, sociocultures, and social inequality
3 The South against the destroying machine: an interdisciplinary attempt to theorize social ontology for a decolonial project in the social sciences
4 Reconceptualizing the cosmic polity: the Tai mueang as a social ontology
5 Developmentalism and the misacknowledgement of socio-ontological difference: the coloniality of being in the Colombian Pacific basin
6 The social ontology of caste
7 Colonial social ontology and the persistence of colonial sociocultures in contemporary Indonesia
8 Social ontologies as world-making projects: the mueang–pa duality in Laos
9 Clashing social ontologies: a sociological history of political violence in the Cambodian elite
10 Social inequality, sociocultures, and social ontology in Brazil
11 Collectivity and individuality in contemporary urban Kenya: social ontologies in Nairobi
12 Pre-modern local collective structures and their manifestation in contemporary society: a case study from Japan
13 The socio-cultural making of inequality in today’s China: symbolic construction and collective habitus