| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Global connections
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Global connections (Ashgate (Firm))
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: decolonizing European sociology: different paths towards a pending project / Manuela Boatcă, Sérgio Costa and Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez -- Postcolonial sociology: a research agenda / Manuela Boatcă and Sérgio Costa -- Sociology after postcolonialism: provincialized cosmopolitanisms and connected sociologies / Gurminder K. Bhambra -- Decolonizing postcolonial rhetoric / Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez -- 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 / Nilufer Gole -- 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 -- Integration as colonial pedagogy of 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 Araujo -- Not all women want to be white: decolonizing beauty studies / Shirley Anne Tate -- South of every north / Franco Cassano -- From postmodern to the postcolonial -- and beyond both / Bonaventura de Sousa Santos -- Critical geopolitics and the decolonization of area studies / Heriberto Cairo. |
| Summary |
Divided into sections organized around key sociological themes, including modernity, multiculturalism, migration and 'the South', this book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of sociology, assessing whether new theoretical developments can be described as decolonization of the discipline. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sociology -- Europe.
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Sociology. |
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Europe. |
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Postcolonialism -- Europe.
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Postcolonialism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Encarnación.
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Boatcă, Manuela.
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Costa, Sérgio, 1962-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780754678724 |
| ISBN |
9780754678724 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0754678725 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780754697237 (ebook) |
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0754697231 (ebook) |
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1282572385 |
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9781282572386 |
| Standard No. |
9786612572388 |
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