
Postcolonial Sociology.
Title:
Postcolonial Sociology.
Author:
Go, Julian.
ISBN:
9781781906040
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (331 pages)
Series:
Political Power and Social Theory ; v.24
Political Power and Social Theory
Contents:
FRONT COVER -- POSTCOLONIAL SOCIOLOGY -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- SENIOR EDITORIAL BOARD -- STUDENT EDITORIAL BOARD -- EDITORIAL STATEMENT -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- PART I: INTRODUCING POSTCOLONIALISM -- INTRODUCTION: ENTANGLING POSTCOLONIALITY AND SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT -- ''POSTCOLONIAL THEORY'' AND SOCIOLOGY -- ENGAGING POSTCOLONIAL THEORY -- THIS VOLUME -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART II: REREADING THE CANON -- THE COLONIAL UNCONSCIOUS OF CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY -- CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY AND EMPIRE -- ORIENTALISM AND THE DISAVOWAL OF EMPIRE -- TRADITION/MODERNITY REVISITED -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- ''FROM THE STANDPOINT OF GERMANISM'': A POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUE OF WEBER'S THEORY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY -- PRELUDE: MODERNITY AS MODERN WESTERN RATIONALISM -- A UNIVERSAL THEORY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY -- THE POLISH QUESTION, THE NEGRO QUESTION, AND THE NATION -- CODA: ON THE PERSISTENCE AND PERVASIVENESS OF STANDPOINT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- COMMON SKIES AND DIVIDED HORIZONS? SOCIOLOGY, RACE, AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES -- INTRODUCTION -- EDUCATION, SOCIOLOGY, AND THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF EMPIRE, 1885-1914 -- THE ''CUNNING'' OF PARK'S IMPERIAL REASON, 1914-1935 -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- PART III: TAKING UP THE POSTCOLONIAL CHALLENGE -- POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUE: THE NECESSITY OF SOCIOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION: THE FIGURE OF SOCIOLOGY -- LISTENING UP -- REINVENTING EMANCIPATION -- OUT OF THE MATRIX? -- UNIVERSALITY, GENERALITY, MODERNITY -- ON PLURIVERSALITY -- REFERENCES -- ''PROVINCIALIZING'' SOCIOLOGY: THE CASE OF A PREMATURE POSTCOLONIAL SOCIOLOGIST -- POSTCOLONIALISM AND SOCIOLOGY -- A PREMATURE POSTCOLONIAL SOCIOLOGIST -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- TOWARD A POSTCOLONIAL SOCIOLOGY IN THE WORK OF OCTAVIO PAZ -- INTRODUCTION.
RECONSIDERING SPACE AND TIME. TOWARD A NON-TELEOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF MODERNITY -- MULTIPLICITY OR ENTANGLEMENT? TOWARD A COMPARATIVE HERMENEUTICS OF MODERNITIES -- MEXICO'S COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL EXPERIENCES -- SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES AND THE (POST-) COLONIAL CONDITION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART IV: THE POSTCOLONIAL AND THE SOCIOLOGICAL -- TOWARD A POSTCOLONIAL SOCIOLOGY: THE VIEW FROM LATIN AMERICA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE LATIN AMERICAN COLONIAL EXPERIENCE -- TOWARD A SOCIOLOGICAL POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE -- LATIN AMERICANIST POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES -- SOCIOLOGY OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE POSTCOLONIAL CHALLENGE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE VIOLENCES OF KNOWLEDGE: EDWARD SAID, SOCIOLOGY, AND POST-ORIENTALIST REFLEXIVITY -- WHY SOCIOLOGISTS SHOULD (RE)READ EDWARD SAID -- THE VIOLENCES OF KNOWLEDGE -- TIME AND THE VIOLENCES OF KNOWLEDGE -- SOCIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND EMPIRE -- TOWARD A REFLEXIVE POST-ORIENTALIST SOCIOLOGY -- CONCLUSION: WHY EDWARD SAID MATTERS -- REFERENCES -- HYBRID HABITUS: TOWARD A POST-COLONIAL THEORY OF PRACTICE -- THE SOUTH AFRICAN FIELD OF HEALTH AND HEALING -- THE SYMBOLIC STRUGGLE OVER HIV/AIDS -- HYBRID HABITUS -- TOWARD A POSTCOLONIAL THEORY OF PRACTICE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE POSSIBILITIES OF, AND FOR, GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY: A POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE -- INTRODUCTION -- MODERNITY, SOCIOLOGY AND POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUE -- MULTIPLE MODERNITIES AND GLOBAL CULTURAL VARIETIES -- GLOBAL MULTICULTURAL SOCIOLOGY -- GLOBAL COSMOPOLITANISM -- TOWARD A POSTCOLONIAL GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.
Abstract:
Postcolonial theory has enjoyed wide influence in the humanities but for social science, and in particular sociology, its implications remain elusive. This special volume brings together leading sociologists to explore the concept of "postcolonial sociology," with brand new postcolonial readings of canonical thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Robert Park. Chapters consider whether or not postcolonial theory is compatible with sociology; explore the relationship between knowledge and colonial power; and offer critical perspectives on the sociology of race and the implications of postcolonial theory for global sociology. They also unravel the complex entanglements of sociology, area studies, and postcolonial studies; give creative deployments of postcolonial concepts such as hybridity; and critical excavations of sociological thought in India and Mexico. In so doing this volume is among the first to craft newsociologies informed by postcolonial criticism.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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