Rethinking Modernity

Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

• Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production.- Part 1: Sociology and its Historiography.- Chapter 1: Modernity, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial Critique.- Chapter 2: European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination.- Chapter 3: From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux.- Part 2: Deconstructing Eurocentrism: Connected Histories.- Chapter 4: Myths of European Cultural Integrity – The Renaissance.- Chapter 5: Myths of the Modern Nation-State – The French Revolution.- Chapter 6: Myths of Industrial Capitalism – The Industrial Revolution.- Conclusion: Sociology and Social Theory after Postcolonialism – Towards a Connected Historiography.