Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

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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. Preface: From Rethinking Modernity to Reparatory Sociology I II III References Acknowledgements Contents Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production I II III IV References Part I: Sociology and Its Historiography 1: Modernity, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Critique I II III IV V VI References 2: European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination I II III IV V VI References 3: From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux I II III IV V VI References Part II: Deconstructing Eurocentrism: Connected Histories 4: Myths of European Cultural Integrity: The Renaissance I II III IV References 5: Myths of the Modern Nation-State: The French Revolution I II III IV V References 6: Myths of Industrial Capitalism: The Industrial Revolution I II III IV V References Conclusion: Sociology and Social Theory after Postcolonialism—Towards a Connected Historiography Notes Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production Modernity, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Critique European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux Myths of European Cultural Integrity: The Renaissance Myths of the Modern Nation-State: The French Revolution Myths of Industrial Capitalism: The Industrial Revolution References Index