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Connected Sociologies

This book outlines what theory for a global age might look like, positing an agenda for consideration, contestation and discussion, and a framework for the research-led volumes that follow in the series.

Gurminder K. Bhambra takes up the classical concerns of sociology and social theory and shows how they can be rethought through an engagement with postcolonial studies and decoloniality, two of the most distinctive critical approaches of the past decades.

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Connected Sociologies

This book outlines what theory for a global age might look like, positing an agenda for consideration, contestation and discussion, and a framework for the research-led volumes that follow in the series.

Gurminder K. Bhambra takes up the classical concerns of sociology and social theory and shows how they can be rethought through an engagement with postcolonial studies and decoloniality, two of the most distinctive critical approaches of the past decades.

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Connected Sociologies

Connected Sociologies

by Gurminder K. Bhambra
Connected Sociologies

Connected Sociologies

by Gurminder K. Bhambra

Overview

This book outlines what theory for a global age might look like, positing an agenda for consideration, contestation and discussion, and a framework for the research-led volumes that follow in the series.

Gurminder K. Bhambra takes up the classical concerns of sociology and social theory and shows how they can be rethought through an engagement with postcolonial studies and decoloniality, two of the most distinctive critical approaches of the past decades.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780932460
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/18/2014
Series: Theory for a Global Age Series
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Theory Centre at the University of Warwick, UK. She is Series Editor of the Theory for a Global Age series.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Connected Sociologies
Sociological Theory and Historical Sociology
1. Modernisation Theory, Underdevelopment, and Multiple Modernities
2. From Modernisation Theory to World History
Social Sciences and Questions of Epistemology
3. Opening the Social Sciences to Cosmopolitanism?
4. Global Sociology: Indigenous, Subversive, Autonomous?
5. Global Sociology: Multiple, Southern, Provincial?
Connected Sociologies
6. Postcolonial and Decolonial Reconstructions
7. Sociology for an 'Always-Already' Global Age

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