Changing Theory

Concepts from the Global South
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-18752-5
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 716 g

Reihe: Transdisciplinary Souths

This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere. The essays engage in the work of thinking through words to generate a conceptual vocabulary that will allow for a global conversation on social theory which will be necessarily multilingual.

With essays by scholars, across generations, and from a variety of disciplines – history, anthropology, and philosophy to literature and political theory – this book will be essential reading for scholars, researchers, and students of critical theory and the social sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Menon, Dilip M

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Changing Theory: Thinking Concepts from the Global South Part I: Relation 2. Ubuntu/Guanxi 3. Tarbiyya Part II: Commensuration 4. Logic 5. Andaj 6. Izithunguthu Part III: The Political 7. Eddembe 8. Minzu 9. Kavi 10. Rajo guna Part IV: The Social 11. Asabiyya 12. Dadani 13. Marumakkathayam Part V: Words in Motion 14. Rantau 15. Musafir 16. Feitiço /Umbanda Part VI: Rooted Words 17. Nongqayi/Nongqai 18. Naam Part VII: Indeterminacy 19. Pajuba 20. Ardhanariswara Part VIII: Insurrection 21. Awqat/Aukat

Über Autor(innen)

Dilip M. Menon is the Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, and Director, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa. He is a historian of South Asia and has recently been working with oceanic histories and questions of epistemology from the Global South. His recent publications include the co-edited volumes Capitalisms: Towards a Global History (2020) and the forthcoming Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime (Routledge, 2022).

Professor Menon was recently awarded the 2021 Falling Walls Foundation Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities.