Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

by Gurminder K. Bhambra

Book Overview

The second edition of this influential book addresses how the experiences and claims of non-European 'others' have been rendered invisible to the standard narratives and analytical frameworks of sociological understandings of modernity. In challenging the dominant, Euro-centred accounts of the emergence and development of modernity, Bhambra puts forward an argument for 'connected histories' in the reconstruction of historical sociology at a global...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031215397
• ISBN13: 9783031215391
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"