Decolonizing European Sociology

'A superb and timely project with a stellar cast of scholars. The collective argument advanced here shows that to open the social sciences was an important step but it was only half of the story. What is needed is to decolonize the social science which this volume initiates by shaking the foundations of its very core: by decolonizing European sociology.' Walter Mignolo, Duke University, USA '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.' Ella Shohat, New York University, USA

Encarnacin Gutirrez Rodrguez is Professor of Sociology at Justus-Liebeg-University Giessen, Germany. Manuela Boatc is Professor of Sociology at Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany. Srgio Costa is Professor of Sociology at the Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany.

Contents: Introduction: decolonising European sociology: different paths towards a pending project, Manuela Boatca, Srgio Costa and Encarnacin Gutirrez Rodrguez; Part I Unsettling Foundations: Postcolonial sociology: a research agenda, Manuela Boatca and Srgio Costa; Sociology after postcolonialism: provincialized cosmopolitanisms and connected sociologies, Gurminder K. Bhambra; Decolonising postcolonial rhetoric, Encarnacin Gutirrez Rodrguez. Part II Pluralising Modernity: Different roads to modernity and their consequences: a sketch, Gran Therborn; New modernities: what's new?, Jan Nederveen Pieterse; European self-presentations and narratives challenged by Islam: secular modernity in question, Nilfer Gle. 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 Arajo; 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 - and beyond both, Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Critical geopolitics and the decolonization of area studies, Heriberto Cairo; Index.