The Social Sciences in a Global Age: Decoding Knowledge Politics

Dipankar Sinha

ISBN 10: 1032169427 / ISBN 13: 9781032169422

Published by Routledge India, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Social Sciences in a Global Age: Decoding Knowledge Politics
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032169427
• ISBN 13: 9781032169422
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: International Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The book focuses on the status and role of social sciences in the current millennium. It critically examines the key debates on the social sciences and focuses on their ir/relevance in our times, especially in background of the changing state-market dialectics. It scrutinises knowledge politics of the global times by exploring how the neoliberal project aligns and fuses steep economic 'conditionalities' with professional cultural parameters of higher academia in order to constrain autonomy and weaken radical expressions in social science pedagogy and research. Asserting that the humanistic core of social sciences has the potential to resist acts of reducing knowledge to a monochromatic form the book argues that social science stream can challenge and resist such hegemonic ambitions. It also identifies and analyses the contradictions, dilemmas, predicaments and false steps of social scientists and avoids a reductive approach based on the 'west versus non-west' binary.The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of the social sciences in general, and in the sociology/politics of knowledge, political theory, political sociology, and education in particular.