Rethinking Modernity

Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

Gurminder K. Bhambra (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XLI, 257 Seiten

2023 | 2nd ed. 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-21539-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.02.2023
Zusatzinfo	XLI, 257 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	394 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte	Capitalism • Colonialism • Historiography • Nation • Politics • Revolution • Social Theory • Sociology
ISBN-10	3-031-21539-7 / 3031215397
ISBN-13	978-3-031-21539-1 / 9783031215391
Zustand	Neuware