Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination - Hardcover

Gurminder K. Bhambra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023050034X ISBN 13: 9780230500341

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Synopsis

Arguing for the idea of connected histories, Bhambra presents a fundamental reconstruction of the idea of modernity in contemporary sociology. She criticizes the abstraction of European modernity from its colonial context and the way non-Western 'others' are disregarded. It aims to establish a dialogue in which 'others' can speak and be heard.

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About the Author:

GURMINDER K. BHAMBRA is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. She has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex and a Research Associate at the Five College Women's Studies Research Centre at Mount Holyoke College, USA, where she was also Visiting Professor in Critical Social Thought. She is co-editor of Silencing Human Rights: Critical Engagements with a Contested Project.   

Review:

Winner of the 2008 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize

Shortlisted for the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology

'Bhambra admirably unpacks prevailing narratives of modernity and Europe, while proposing the use of 'connected histories' to improve contemporary sociology' - Sociology

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 023050034X
• ISBN 13: 9780230500341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200