By Julian Go
Postcolonial idea has loved huge impression within the humanities yet for social technological know-how, and specifically sociology, its implications stay elusive. This unique quantity brings jointly top sociologists to discover the idea that of 'postcolonial sociology,' with fresh postcolonial readings of canonical thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Robert Park. Chapters think about even if postcolonial thought is suitable with sociology; discover the connection among wisdom and colonial strength; and provide serious views at the sociology of race and the results of postcolonial concept for international sociology. in addition they get to the bottom of the advanced entanglements of sociology, region reports, and postcolonial reports; supply inventive deployments of postcolonial techniques resembling hybridity; and important excavations of sociological notion in India and Mexico. In so doing this quantity is without doubt one of the first to craft new sociologies knowledgeable by means of postcolonial feedback.
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Postcolonial thought has loved broad impact within the humanities yet for social technology, and particularly sociology, its implications stay elusive. This specified quantity brings jointly prime sociologists to discover the concept that of 'postcolonial sociology,' with fresh postcolonial readings of canonical thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Robert Park.
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As Chakrabarty puts it in another context, there is a ‘‘simultaneous indispensability and inadequacy of social science thought’’ (Chakrabarty, 2000, p. 6). Perhaps the key is neither to uncritically accept sociology or reject it entirely but to acknowledge its origins, its standpoint, and its limitations so as to push ahead. In other words, while sociology may have provincial origins, this fact does not invalidate its knowledge project altogether. It merely calls for reflexivity, a recognition that the knowledge produced might be limited or specific, and invites us to search for new methods, concepts, theories – or redeployments of established ones – so as to meet the postcolonial critique.
It challenged the orientalism of European sociology and, drawing upon and rearticulating indigenous concepts like vishwa and shakti, theorized histories and societies as interconnected rather than independent. In this and other ways richly described by Goswami, Sarkar offered a novel comparative if not cosmopolitan sociology that escapes the traps of analytic bifurcation, metrocentrism, and European-centered historicism. Kozlarek’s essay adopts a similar approach but turns to the sociological thought of the writer Octavio Paz in Mexico.
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