Rethinking Modernity
Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination
2nd Edition
Published on 16. February 2023
XLI, 257 pages
978-3-031-21537-7 (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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Series
Edition
Second Edition 2023
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XLI, 257 p.
File size
4,87 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-031-21537-7 (9783031215377)
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 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.- Chapter 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.
