Connected Sociologies

This book, written by the general editor of the Theory for a Global Age Series, really sets out a framework for the research-led volumes that follow. It argues that seeing the world from different perspectives should be about allowing difference to throw a light on the foundations of one's own frame. Bhambra outlines what 'Theory for a Global Age' might look like, offering this outline as a statement for consideration, contestation and discussion. The text takes up the classical concerns of sociology and social theory and shows how they are being rethought through an engagement with postcolonial studies - one of the most distinctive critical approaches of the past two decades. It also introduces the significant research programme surrounding coloniality/modernity that has emerged more recently from Latin America. The work culminates in a powerful claim for the reconstruction of mainstream social theory away from existing universal categories in recognition of the provincial nature of knowledge. Bhambra sets the agenda for a new social theory which not only engages with global intellectual currents, but is fundamentally reshaped by them.

Gurminder K. Bhambra is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Theory Centre at the University of Warwick, UK.

Eurocentred Grand Narratives: Classical Sociology and its Canons
Multiple Modernities and Multiple Sociologies
Postcolonialism and Decoloniality
Connected Sociologies: Towards a Different Universalism