Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez, Manuela Boatca, Sérgio Costa

Decolonizing European Sociology (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 key sociological concepts and themes, this book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of sociology through an assessment of the new theoretical developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317153764
• Artikelnr.: 45096229

Autorenporträt

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is Professor of Sociology at Justus-Liebeg-University Giessen, Germany.

Manuela Boatca is Professor of Sociology at Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany.

Sérgio Costa is Professor of Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: decolonising European sociology: different paths
towards a pending project, Manuela Boatca, Sérgio Costa and Encarnación
Gutiérrez RodrÃguez; Part I Unsettling Foundations: Postcolonial
sociology: a research agenda, Manuela Boatca and Sérgio Costa; Sociology
after postcolonialism: provincialized cosmopolitanisms and connected
sociologies, Gurminder K. Bhambra; Decolonising postcolonial rhetoric,
Encarnación Gutiérrez RodrÃguez. Part II Pluralising Modernity: 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, Nilÿfer Göle. Part III Questioning Politics of Difference:
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.
Part IV Border-Thinking: Integration as 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 Araújo;
Not all the women want to be white: decolonizing beauty studies, Shirley
Anne Tate. Part V Looking South: South of every North, Franco Cassano; From
the postmodern to the postcolonial - and beyond both, Boaventura de Sousa
Santos; Critical geopolitics and the decolonization of area studies,
Heriberto Cairo; Index.