Rethinking Modernity

Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination
2. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-21536-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 257 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

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

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhambra, Gurminder K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge ProductionPart 1: Sociology and its HistoriographyChapter 1: Modernity, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial CritiqueChapter 2: European Modernity and the Sociological ImaginationChapter 3: From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism ReduxPart 2: Deconstructing Eurocentrism: Connected Histories4: Myths of European Cultural Integrity – The RenaissanceChapter 5: Myths of the Modern Nation-State – The French RevolutionChapter 6: Myths of Industrial Capitalism – The Industrial RevolutionConclusion: 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.