Overview
- Recontextualises and expands the Winner of the 2008 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize
- Includes an original preface to the text
- Proposes the use of 'connected histories' to improve contemporary sociology
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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.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sociology and Its Historiography
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Front Matter
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Deconstructing Eurocentrism: Connected Histories
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Modernity
Book Subtitle: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination
Authors: Gurminder K. Bhambra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21537-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21539-1Published: 17 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21537-7Published: 16 February 2023
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XLI, 257
Topics: Social Theory, Social History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Historiography and Method