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.
Author(s): Gurminder K. Bhambra
Edition: 2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 287
City: Cham
Preface: From Rethinking Modernity to Reparatory Sociology
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Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production
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Part I: Sociology and Its Historiography
1: Modernity, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Critique
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2: European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination
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3: From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux
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Part II: Deconstructing Eurocentrism: Connected Histories
4: Myths of European Cultural Integrity: The Renaissance
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5: Myths of the Modern Nation-State: The French Revolution
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6: Myths of Industrial Capitalism: The Industrial Revolution
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Conclusion: Sociology and Social Theory after Postcolonialism—Towards a Connected Historiography
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Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production
Modernity, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Critique
European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination
From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux
Myths of European Cultural Integrity: The Renaissance
Myths of the Modern Nation-State: The French Revolution
Myths of Industrial Capitalism: The Industrial Revolution
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