Rethinking Modernity

TRAMA

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.

SOMMARIO

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.

AUTORE

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

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783031215391
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XLI, 257 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 257
• Pagine Romane: xli