Colonialism and Modern Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9781509541300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

Gurminder K. Bhambra; John Holmwood

Recenzje

Click here to watch the online launch of the book.?This is a remarkably powerful book that supplies an eloquent, well-reasoned, and thorough account of how colonialism and empire are absent from sociology?s current jurisdiction. Written by two outstanding sociologists, it is a nuanced and pertinent critique of the classical canon in modern social theory and an invitation to decolonize it.?Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut and President of the International Sociological Association?Bhambra and Holmwood analyse incisively how the elided colonial context of modern social theory has shaped and limited its purview, and that of western sociology. They provide a timely, provocative optic for engaging the unanticipated ethnoracial nationalist backlash to multicultural democracy.?Robert J. Antonio, University of Kansas

Spis treści

Introduction: Colonialism, Historiography, and Modern Social Theory1. Hobbes to Hegel: Europe and its Others2. Tocqueville: From the United States to Algeria3. Marx: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Class4. Weber: Religion, Nation, and Empire5. Durkheim: Modernity and Community6. Du Bois: Addressing the Colour LineConclusion: The Fictions of Modern Social Theory

O autorze

Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex.John Holmwood is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham.