Decolonizing European Sociology: Transdisciplinary Approaches (global Connections)

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. Divided Into Sections Organized Around Key Sociological Themes, Including Modernity, Multiculturalism, Migration And 'the South', This Book Considers The Self-definition And Basic Concepts Of Sociology, Assessing Whether New Theoretical Developments Can Be Described As Decolonization Of The Discipline. Introduction: Decolonizing European Sociology: Different Paths Towards A Pending Project / Manuela Boatcă, Sérgio Costa And Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez -- Postcolonial Sociology: A Research Agenda / Manuela Boatcă And Sérgio Costa -- Sociology After Postcolonialism: Provincialized Cosmopolitanisms And Connected Sociologies / Gurminder K. Bhambra -- Decolonizing Postcolonial Rhetoric / Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez -- Different Roads To Modernity And Their Consequences: A Sketch / Göran Therborn -- New Modernities: What's New? / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- European Self-presentations And Narratives Challenged By Islam: Secular Modernity In Question / Nilufer Gole -- 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 -- Integration As Colonial Pedagogy Of 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 Araujo -- Not All Women Want To Be White: Decolonizing Beauty Studies / Shirley Anne Tate -- South Of Every North / Franco Cassano -- From Postmodern To The Postcolonial -- And Beyond Both / Bonaventura De Sousa Santos -- Critical Geopolitics And The Decolonization Of Area Studies / Heriberto Cairo. Edited By Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Manuela Boatcă, Sérgio Costa. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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.