Rethinking Modernity

$45.99

Taxes may apply at checkout.

Rethinking Modernity

Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

Cultural studies Social theory Historiography Social and cultural history

Author: Gurminder K. Bhambra

Dinosaur mascot

Collection: Social Sciences

Language: English

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Published on: 16th February 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9783031215377


Book Description

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.

Show moreShow less