Bhambra Rethinking Modernity

Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination
2. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-21537-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 257 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

The second edition of this influential book addresses how the experiences and claims of non-European ‘others’ have been rendered invisible to the standard narratives and analytical frameworks of sociological understandings of modernity. In challenging the dominant, Euro-centred accounts of the emergence and development of modernity, Bhambra puts forward an argument for ‘connected histories’ in the reconstruction of historical sociology at a global level. This updated version of the original, published in 2007, adds a new preface which explores key themes that Bhambra has further developed over the intervening years: specifically, how the rethinking of modernity enables us to reconstruct sociology and a call for a 'reparatory sociology' committed to the repair of the social sciences and the securing of global justice.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhambra, Gurminder K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production.- Part 1: Sociology and its Historiography.- Chapter 1: Modernity, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial Critique.- Chapter 2: European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination.- Chapter 3: From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux.- Part 2: Deconstructing Eurocentrism: Connected Histories.- Chapter 4: Myths of European Cultural Integrity – The Renaissance.- Chapter 5: Myths of the Modern Nation-State – The French Revolution.- Chapter 6: Myths of Industrial Capitalism – The Industrial Revolution.- Conclusion: Sociology and Social Theory after Postcolonialism – Towards a Connected Historiography.

Über Autor(innen)

Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK.