This volume brings together key scholars from across the globe to explore anti-colonial and anti-imperial perspectives to help transform our ways of the looking at the world. Collectively, these chapters introduce new frameworks and methodologies that challenge the dominance of Western paradigms while highlighting the multiplicity of issues and themes emerging from colonialized countries, past and present.
By rethinking the foundational assumptions of European history and society, this book offers new frameworks to comprehend the past and future of social science and humanities, while inspiring readers to approach knowledge about human societies through a truly global, anti-colonial lens.
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Introduction – Sujata Patel and Maureen A. Eger
Part 1: Anti-Colonial Social Theory: An Overview
1. Anti-Colonial Social Theory as a Peripheral Stance – Sujata Patel
2. The Promise of Anti-Colonial Social Theory – Julian Go
3. The Meanings of Anti-Colonial Social Thought – Syed Farid Alatas
4. Anti-Colonial Theory in A Global World: The Predicaments of Location – Satish Deshpande
5. Reworlding Amid Empires – Laura Doyle
6. Sociology Besides Modernity? Ontoformativity for Southern Theories – Marcelo Rosa
Part 2: Social Theory, Empire and Colonialism
7. Theorising Political Communities Otherwise: Anti-Colonial Thinking in Africa – Faisal Garba Muhammed
8. Between Eurocentrism and Sinocentrism: Inter-Imperial Space and the Formation of Hong Kong Modernity – Hon-Fai CHEN
9. Sensing the anticolonial Du Bois: Pan-Africanism, reverse tutelage, and Du Boisian public sociology – Ali Meghji
10. Humanising Legacies of Caribbean Slavery and Colonialism in the Contemporary UK – Ann Phoenix
11. French Epistemic Extractivism as Seen From its Confines – Nacira Guenif
12. Planetary Questions and the Global South – Neferti Tadiar
13. Modernity’s Promises and its Discontents – Keti Chukhrov
关于作者
Sujata Patel is Professor Emerita at the University of Hyderabad in India and a Visiting Scholar at the Freiburg Advanced Studies Centre in Germany.