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Author(s): R. Connell
Series: Polity; 1 edition
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 288

Cover......Page 1
Part title......Page 2
Title page......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 16
PART I Northern theory......Page 18
1 Empire and the creation of a social science......Page 20
2 Modern general theory and its hidden assumptions......Page 44
3 Imagining globalisation......Page 66
PART II Looking south......Page 86
4 The discovery of Australia......Page 88
PART III Southern theory......Page 104
5 Indigenous knowledge and African Renaissance......Page 106
6 Islam and Western dominance......Page 128
7 Dependency, autonomy and culture......Page 156
8 Power, violence and the pain of colonialism......Page 182
PART IV Antipodean reflections......Page 210
9 The silence of the land......Page 212
10 Social science on a world scale......Page 228
References......Page 250
Index......Page 280