Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

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 level. This updated version of the original, published in 2007, adds a new preface which explores key themes that Bhambra has further developed over the intervening years: specifically, how the rethinking of modernity enables us to reconstruct sociology and a call for a 'reparatory sociology' committed to the repair of the social sciences ​and the securing of global justice.


Author: Gurminder K. Bhambra
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 02/17/2023
Pages: 257
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9783031215391
ISBN10: 3031215397
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- History | Social History
- History | Historiography

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