The Social Sciences in a Global Age

Decoding Knowledge Politics
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-62692-1
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

The book focuses on the status and role of the social sciences in the current millennium. Drawing inspiration from a range of theorists, it critically examines the key debates on the social science stream and focuses on its ir/relevance in our times in the background of changing state-market dialectics. It specifically scrutinises knowledge politics of the global times to reveal how the neoliberal project aligns and fuses steep economic ‘conditionalities’ with professional cultural parameters of higher academia to constrain autonomy and weaken radical expressions in social science pedagogy and research. Asserting that the humanistic core of social sciences has the potential to resist acts of reducing knowledge to a monochromatic form, the book argues that the social science stream can challenge and resist such hegemonic ambitions. It also identifies and analyses the contradictions, dilemmas, predicaments and false steps of social scientists, and avoids a reductive approach based on the ‘west versus non-west’ binary.

The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of the social sciences in general, and of sociology/politics of knowledge, political theory, political sociology and education in particular.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sinha, Dipankar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Critical Times Now 2. Packaging Knowledge: The Neoliberal Tapestry 3. On the Track of Elusive Template 4. Sampling India: A Close-up View 5. Political Science: Facing the Mirror Conclusion: On Pressing the Criticality Button. Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Dipankar Sinha is Professor of Political Science and Director, Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Calcutta, India. He is also Honorary Associate of the Centre for Media History, Macquarie University, Australia and Nominated Member, Association of Global Studies, USA. Sinha has authored, co-authored and co-edited several books. His last book, The Information Game in Democracy, was published by Routledge in 2018.