Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

ISBN-13: 9783031215391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 257 str.

Gurminder K. Bhambra

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

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

O autorze

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

Blurb

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.

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