Rethinking Modernity

Rethinking Modernity presents a fundamental reconstruction of the idea of modernity in contemporary sociology and social theory. Now available in paperback, it criticizes the abstraction of European modernity from its colonial context as well as the way in which the experiences of non-Western 'others' are regarded as having no contribution to make to such understandings. In challenging the dominant, Eurocentred accounts of the emergence and development of modernity,Gurminder Bhambra presents an argument for the recognition of 'connected histories' in the reconstruction of historical sociology at a global level. She addresses three supposedly 'founding moments' in the narrative of modernity - the Renaissance, the French and Industrial Revolutions - in order to identify myths of origin which remain embedded in dominant accounts of modernity whether that be modernization theory or multiple modernities.

ISBN 0230227155   Pages 208 ISBN13 9780230227156 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Weight (grammes) 267 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 08 Apr 2009   Width (mm) 139 Library of Congress HM585   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY 301   Academic level Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

Acknowledgements Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production PART I: SOCIOLOGY AND ITS HISTORIOGRAPHY Modernity, Colonialism and the Postcolonial Critique European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux PART II: DECONSTRUCTING EUROCENTRISM: CONNECTED HISTORIES The Renaissance and Myths of European Cultural Integrity The French Revolution and Myths of the Modern Nation-State The Industrial Revolution and Myths of Industrial Capitalism Conclusion: Sociology and Social Theory After Postcolonialism: Toward A Connected Historiography References Index

Winner of the 2008 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology 'Bhambra admirably unpacks prevailing narratives of modernity and Europe, while proposing the use of 'connected histories' to improve contemporary sociology' - Sociology

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