FRONT COVER -- DECENTERING SOCIAL THEORY -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- SENIOR EDITORIAL BOARD -- STUDENT EDITORIAL BOARD -- EDITORIAL STATEMENT -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- PART I: RESEARCH ARTICLES -- AMBIGUITIES OF DEMOCRATIZATION: NATIONALISM, RELIGION, AND ETHNICITY UNDER AKP GOVERNMENT IN TURKEY -- INTRODUCTION -- DEMOCRATIZATION AS DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE -- DISCOURSE, PRACTICE, AND ETHNOGRAPHY -- BECOMING A ''MINORITY'' AT THE MARGINS: HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- DEMOCRACY DISCOURSE WITHIN THE STATE -- DEMOCRACY DISCOURSE WITHIN THE RUM ORTHODOX COMMUNITY -- THE SIMULTANEITY OF DÉ JÁ VU AND NEW FORMS OF HIERARCHY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- BINDING INSTITUTIONS: PEASANTS AND NATION-STATE RULE IN THE ALBANIAN HIGHLANDS, 1919-1939 -- STATE FORMATION AND STATE WEAKNESS IN THE NON-WESTERN WORLD: A THEORETICAL DISCUSSION -- STATE BUILDING IN THE ALBANIAN HIGHLANDS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART II: DECOLONIZING SOCIOLOGY -- PARAMETERS OF A POSTCOLONIAL SOCIOLOGY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- THREE COROLLARIES OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- TOWARD A POSTCOLONIAL SOCIOLOGY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- INTERSECTIONS OF OTTOMAN STUDIES AND POSTCOLONIAL ANALYSIS: THE MODERN PERIOD -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ORIENTALIST-EUROCENTRIC FRAMING OF SOCIOLOGY IN INDIA: A DISCUSSION ON THREE TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOCIOLOGISTS -- ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE EPISTEME OF COLONIAL MODERNITY -- SOCIOLOGICAL VISIONS OF G. S. GHURYE AND D. P. MUKERJI -- A CRITIQUE OF ORIENTALIST-EUROCENTRIC ANALYSIS: THE CONTRIBUTIONS BY HISTORIANS -- THE RE-AFFIRMATION OF ORIENTALIST-EUROPEAN EPISTEME: RELIGION AND SOCIAL THEORY IN THE WORK OF T. N. MADAN -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART III: SCHOLARLY CONTROVERSIES: RAEWYN CONNELL'S SOUTHERN THEORY.

A SOCIOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH, NOT A SOCIOLOGICAL GUILT TRIP -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS IN WESTERN SOCIAL THEORY: REFLECTIONS ON POWER AND SOUTHERN THEORY -- CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS IN WESTERN SOCIAL THEORY -- CONNELL'S CRITICAL INTERVENTION: TWO DILEMMAS -- BUILDING A CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY -- REFERENCE -- CONNELL AND POSTCOLONIAL SOCIOLOGY -- THE HISTORY OF METROPOLITAN SOCIOLOGY -- THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE -- BETTER KNOWLEDGE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THEORETICAL LABORS NECESSARY FOR A GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY: CRITIQUE OF RAEWYN CONNELL'S SOUTHERN THEORY -- THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE TO SOCIOLOGY, AND TO SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY IN PARTICULAR -- WHAT IS THE THEORETICAL LABOR NECESSARY FOR A NEW GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY? -- THE CONNELL HERMENEUTIC: ENCOUNTER, TRANSLATION, AND THE GROUNDED INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THEORY -- CONNELL'S CHALLENGE AND THE SPECTRUM OF GENERALIZATION -- FROM SOCIOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY TO PHILOSOPHY IN CONNELL'S READING OF AFRICAN SOCIAL THOUGHT -- GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY, EPISTEMIC SHIFT, AND THEORY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- UNDER SOUTHERN SKIES -- REFERENCES.