Postcolonial sociologies : a reader / edited by Julian Go, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Go, Julian, editor.

Series:

Political power and social theory ; v. 31.

Political power and social theory, 0198-8719 ; volume 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism.

Sociology--History.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

United Kingdom : Emerald, 2016.

Summary:

How can postcolonial thought be most fruitfully translated and incorporated into sociology? This special volume brings together leading sociologists to offer some answers and examples. The chapters offer new postcolonial readings of canonical thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Robert Park.

Contents:

Front Cover; Postcolonial Sociologies: A Reader; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Senior Editorial Board; Student Editorial Board; Editorial Statement; Introduction: Sociology and Postcoloniality; "Postcolonial Theory" and Sociology; Engaging Postcolonial Theory; Letting the Subaltern Speak; Overcoming Analytic Bifurcations; Sociology's Standpoint and the Limits of Knowledge; The Present Collection; Notes; References; The colonial unconscious of classical sociology; Classical sociology and empire; Marx; Durkheim; Weber; Orientalism and the disavowal of empire

Tradition/modernity revisitedAcknowledgments; 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; The 1890s: Suppressing ''Polonism''; The 1900s: The Problem of the Color Line; 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, 1885-1914Park, Liberal Imperialism, and the Congo Reform Association; Hampton and Tuskegee in the Political Culture of Empire; Sociological Theory, Liberal Imperialism, and the ''Negro Question''; The ''cunning'' of Park's imperial reason, 1914-1935; The Return of the Repressed: Park on the ''Africanist Presence'' in American Culture; ''With Special Reference to the Negro'': Park on Assimilation and of Pan-Africanism; Conclusion; Note; References; The Violences of Knowledge: Edward Said, Sociology, and Post-Orientalist Reflexivity

Why sociologists should (re)read Edward SaidThe 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; Neo-Bourdieusian Theory and the Question of Scientific Autonomy: German Sociologists and Empire, 1890s-1940s; Sociology and Empire; Toward a Theory of Scientific Autonomy; Ego Autonomy; Embattled Autonomy, 1880-1945; Weber as a Modernist Mandarin: The Example of The Religion of China; Richard Thurnwald as a Case of Scientific Adaptability

Conclusion: Ego Autonomy and Scientific Autonomy RevisitedNotes; References; This Article has been Cited by; ''Provincializing'' sociology: The case of a premature postcolonial sociologist; Postcolonialism and sociology; A premature postcolonial sociologist; Conclusion; Notes; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 6, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781786353252

1786353253

OCLC:

958651134