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This volume brings together key scholars from across the globe to explore anti-colonial and anti-imperial perspectives to help transform our ways of the looking at the world. Collectively, these chapters introduce new frameworks and methodologies that challenge the dominance of Western paradigms while highlighting the multiplicity of issues and themes emerging from colonialized countries, past and present.
By rethinking the foundational assumptions of European history and society, this book offers new frameworks to comprehend the past and future of social science and humanities, while inspiring readers to approach knowledge about human societies through a truly global, anti-colonial lens.
‘This is an impressive survey of an emerging field of knowledge, as social science grapples with empire and imperialism, past and present. Invasions, resistances, racisms and forms of knowledge are examined in chapters that range from broad proposals for integrating this new field to vivid accounts of contemporary power, violence and oppression.’ Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney
Sujata Patel is a retired Professor of Sociology at the University of Hyderabad in India and a Visiting Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Germany.
Maureen A. Eger is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Umeå University in Sweden and a 2024-25 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in the United States.
1. Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship: An Introduction - Sujata Patel and Maureen A. Eger
2. Anti-Colonial Theory as a Peripheral Gaze - Sujata Patel
3. The Meanings of Anti-Colonial Social Thought and Theory - Syed Farid Alatas
4. The Promise of Anticolonial Social Theory - Julian Go
5. Anticolonial Scholarship and the Politics of Location: Can Social Theory Be Truly Democratic and Truly Global? - Satish Deshpande
6. Decolonial Dialectics in an Inter-Imperial World - Laura Doyle
7. Anti-Colonial Planetary Struggle: History, Humans, and Us - Neferti X. M. Tadiar
8. Theorizing Hong Kong: From Colonial Collaboration to Inter-Imperial Zone - Hon-Fai Chen
9. Humanising Legacies of Caribbean Slavery and Colonialism in the Contemporary UK - Ann Phoenix
10. The Horrors of Settler Colonialism: Remote Sites of Refugee Detention in Australia’s Carceral Archipelago - Claudia Tazreiter
11. Sociology Besides Modernity? Ontoformative Gestures and Anti-Colonial Theories - Marcelo C. Rosa