
Rethinking Modernity
Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination
Gurminder K. Bhambra(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 23. March 2023
Book
Hardback
VIII, 257 pages
978-3-031-21536-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
2nd ed. 2023
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
VIII, 257 p.
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-031-21536-0 (9783031215360)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-21537-7
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
Content
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