{"id":1192,"date":"2013-04-30T13:59:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T13:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:28:31","slug":"decolonizing-european-sociology-transdisciplinary-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Decolonizing European Sociology . Transdisciplinary Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DecolonizingEdited by Encarnaci\u00f3n Guti\u00e9rrez Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>, University of Manchester, UK, Manuela Boatca<\/strong>, Catholic University of Eichst\u00e4tt-Ingolstadt, Germany and S\u00e9rgio Costa<\/strong>, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany <\/strong><\/p>\n

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 themes like modernity, border epistemology, migration and ‘the South’, this book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of social sciences through an assessment of the new theoretical developments, such as postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, and whether they can be described as the decolonization of the discipline.<\/p>\n

With contributions from a truly international team of leading social scientists, this volume constitutes a unique and tightly focused exploration of the challenges presented by the decolonization of the discipline of sociology.<\/p>\n

Contents:<\/strong> Introduction: decolonising European sociology: different paths towards a pending project, Manuela Boatca, S\u00e9rgio Costa and Encarnaci\u00f3n Guti\u00e9rrez Rodr\u00edguez; Part I Unsettling Foundations: Postcolonial sociology: a research agenda, Manuela Boatca and S\u00e9rgio Costa; Sociology after postcolonialism: provincialized cosmopolitanisms and connected sociologies, Gurminder K. Bhambra; Decolonising postcolonial rhetoric, Encarnaci\u00f3n Guti\u00e9rrez Rodr\u00edguez. Part II Pluralising Modernity: Different roads to modernity and their consequences: a sketch, G\u00f6ran Therborn; New modernities: what’s new?, Jan Nederveen Pieterse; European self-presentations and narratives challenged by Islam: secular modernity in question, Nil\u00fcfer G\u00f6le. 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 Ara\u00fajo; 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 \u2013 and beyond both, Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Critical geopolitics and the decolonization of area studies, Heriberto Cairo; Index.<\/p>\n

About the Editor:<\/strong> Encarnaci\u00f3n Guti\u00e9rrez Rodr\u00edguez is Senior Lecturer in Transcultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, Manuela Boatca is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociological Theory and Researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies at the Catholic University of Eichst\u00e4tt-Ingolstadt, Germany, S\u00e9rgio Costa is Professor of Sociology at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin and a Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Centre of Analysis and Planning (S\u00e3o Paulo)<\/p>\n

Reviews:<\/strong> ‘A superb and timely project with a stellar cast of scholars. The collective argument advanced here shows that to \u201copen the social sciences\u201d was an important step but it was only half of the story. What is needed is \u201cto decolonize the social science\u201d which this volume initiates by shaking the foundations of its very core: by decolonizing European sociology.’<\/p>\n

Walter Mignolo, Duke University, USA<\/p>\n

‘Decolonizing European Sociology offers a vital contribution to the ongoing debate over the Eurocentric epistem that has informed the formation of the disciplines. The brilliant interdisciplinary essays examine the field of Sociology as historically embedded within discourses of European coloniality and modernity. Building on the insights of postcolonial, feminist, and queer theories, this groundbreaking volume proposes new and provocative modes for decolonizing the production of knowledge about Europe.’<\/p>\n

Ella Shohat, New York University, USA<\/p>\n

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Edited by Encarnaci\u00f3n Guti\u00e9rrez Rodr\u00edguez, University of Manchester, UK, Manuela Boatca, Catholic University of Eichst\u00e4tt-Ingolstadt, Germany and S\u00e9rgio Costa, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n

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 themes like modernity, border epistemology, migration and \u2018the South\u2019, this book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of social sciences through an assessment of the new theoretical developments, such as postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, and whether they can be described as the decolonization of the discipline.<\/p>\n

With contributions from a truly international team of leading social scientists, this volume constitutes a unique and tightly focused exploration of the challenges presented by the decolonization of the discipline of sociology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5085,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/5085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}