Decolonizing European sociology : transdisciplinary approaches

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    • Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Encarnación
    • Boatcă, Manuela
    • Costa, Sérgio

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Decolonizing European sociology : transdisciplinary approaches

edited by Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Manuela Boatcă, Sérgio Costa

(Global connections)

Ashgate, c2010

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around themes like modernity, border epistemology, migration and 'the South', this book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of social sciences through an assessment of the new theoretical developments, such as postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, and whether they can be described as the decolonization of the discipline. With contributions from a truly international team of leading social scientists, this volume constitutes a unique and tightly focused exploration of the challenges presented by the decolonization of the discipline of sociology.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: Introduction: decolonising European sociology: different paths towards a pending project, Manuela Boatca, Sergio Costa and EncarnaciA(3)n Gutierrez RodrA guez
  • Part I Unsettling Foundations: Postcolonial sociology: a research agenda, Manuela Boatca and Sergio Costa
  • Sociology after postcolonialism: provincialized cosmopolitanisms and connected sociologies, Gurminder K. Bhambra
  • Decolonising postcolonial rhetoric, EncarnaciA(3)n Gutierrez RodrA guez. Part II Pluralising Modernity: Different roads to modernity and their consequences: a sketch, GAran Therborn
  • New modernities: what's new?, Jan Nederveen Pieterse
  • European self-presentations and narratives challenged by Islam: secular modernity in question, NilA1/4fer GAle. Part III Questioning Politics of Difference: Eurocentrism, sociology, secularity, Gregor McLennan
  • Wounded subjects: sexual exceptionalism and the moral panic on 'migrant homophobia' in Germany, Jin Haritaworn
  • The perpetual redrawing of cultural boundaries: Central Europe in the light of today's realities, Immanuel Wallerstein. Part IV Border-Thinking: Integration as postcolonial immigrants and people of colour: a German case study, Kien Nghi Ha
  • The coloniality of power and ethnic affinity in migration policy: the Spanish case, Sandra Gil AraAjo
  • Not all the women want to be white: decolonizing beauty studies, Shirley Anne Tate. Part V Looking South: South of every North, Franco Cassano
  • From the postmodern to the postcolonial - and beyond both, Boaventura de Sousa Santos
  • Critical geopolitics and the decolonization of area studies, Heriberto Cairo
  • Index.

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