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Rethinking modernity : postcolonialism and the sociological imagination / Gurminder K. Bhambra.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: viii, 200 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 023050034X
  • 9780230500341
  • 0230227155
  • 9780230227156
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.091821 22
LOC classification:
  • HM585 .B486 2007
Contents:
Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production -- Part 1. Sociology and Its Historiography -- 1. Modernity, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial Critique -- 2. European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination -- 3. From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux -- Part 2. Deconstructing Eurocentrism: Connected Histories -- 4. Myths of European Cultural Integrity - The Renaissance -- 5. Myths of the Modern Nation-State - The French Revolution -- 6. Myths of Industrial Capitalism - The Industrial Revolution -- Conclusion: Sociology and Social Theory After Postcolonialism - Towards a Connected Historiography.
Summary: "Arguing for the idea of connected histories, Gurminder Bhambra presents a fundamental reconstruction of the idea of modernity in contemporary sociology, where modernity's origins are located in Europe. She criticizes the abstraction of European modernity from its colonial context and the way in which non-Western 'others' are regarded as having no contribution to make to understandings of modernity. It aims to establish a dialogue in which 'others' can speak, and also be heard."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production -- Part 1. Sociology and Its Historiography -- 1. Modernity, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial Critique -- 2. European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination -- 3. From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux -- Part 2. Deconstructing Eurocentrism: Connected Histories -- 4. Myths of European Cultural Integrity - The Renaissance -- 5. Myths of the Modern Nation-State - The French Revolution -- 6. Myths of Industrial Capitalism - The Industrial Revolution -- Conclusion: Sociology and Social Theory After Postcolonialism - Towards a Connected Historiography.

"Arguing for the idea of connected histories, Gurminder Bhambra presents a fundamental reconstruction of the idea of modernity in contemporary sociology, where modernity's origins are located in Europe. She criticizes the abstraction of European modernity from its colonial context and the way in which non-Western 'others' are regarded as having no contribution to make to understandings of modernity. It aims to establish a dialogue in which 'others' can speak, and also be heard."--Publisher description.

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