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Why we need a revolution in the Social sciences: A post-colonial perspective

Author : Sujay Rao Mandavilli
Publisher : Sujay Rao Mandavilli
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why we need a revolution in the Social sciences: A post-colonial perspective written by Sujay Rao Mandavilli and published by Sujay Rao Mandavilli. This book was released on 2024-05-11 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We began our work in right and in serious earnest in the year 2005, November 14th, 2005 to be precise when children’s day is celebrated all over India in commemoration of the birthday of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. The underlying philosophy of our work however, stretches back to the early 1990’s, even the mid 1980’s, when we faced a great deal of cognitive dissonance in many of our endeavours and daily walks of life due to a constant exposure to, and a bombardment by, a large number of philosophies and ideas from different sources, both human and non-human. In the year 2005, particularly after the aforesaid date, we had reached out to several leading lights and luminaries in the fields of science, religion, philosophy and spirituality with a great deal of hope, to meaningfully engage with them and elicit their own pet theories, proposals and viewpoints on various issues and topics. We had hoped that this would also help us in our own voyage and journey of discovery. The results were indeed startling; there was a wide variation in viewpoints based on the scholar in question’s own religious, linguistic and nationalistic affiliation, and loyalties. Therefore, the age of ideology has still not formally or conceptually ended; ending this can change many fundamental equations at a grassroots level, and can make life better for all of us living in different parts of the world. As a matter of fact, Eurocentric biases in various fields of the social sciences has only served to throw up counter-reactions, and exacerbate ideological differences. Intellectualism is also still weak in general, particularly in developing countries, particularly owing to the following factors..........................

Southern Theory

Author : RAEWYN. CONNELL
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367719418
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Southern Theory written by RAEWYN. CONNELL and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Theory presents the case for a radical re-thinking of social science and its relationships to knowledge, power and democracy on a world scale. Mainstream social science pictures the world as understood by the educated and affluent in Europe and North America. From Weber and Keynes to Friedman and Foucault, theorists from the global North dominate the imagination of social scientists, and the reading lists of students, all over the world. For most of modern history, the majority world has served social science only as a data mine. Yet the global South does produce knowledge and understanding of society. Through vivid accounts of critics and theorists, Raewyn Connell shows how social theory from the world periphery has power and relevance for understanding our changing world from al-Afghani at the dawn of modern social science, to Raul Prebisch in industrialising Latin America, Ali Shariati in revolutionary Iran, Paulin Hountondji in post-colonial Benin, Veena Das and Ashis Nandy in contemporary India, and many others. With clarity and verve, Southern Theory introduces readers to texts, ideas and debates that have emerged from Australia's Indigenous people, from Africa, Latin America, south and south-west Asia. It deals with modernisation, gender, race, class, cultural domination, neoliberalism, violence, trade, religion, identity, land, and the structure of knowledge itself. Southern Theory shows how this tremendous resource has been disregarded by mainstream social science. It explores the challenges of doing theory in the periphery, and considers the role Southern perspectives should have in a globally connected system of knowledge. Southern Theory draws on sociology, anthropology, history, psychology, economics, philosophy and cultural studies, with wide-ranging implications for social science in the 21st century.

The New Handbook of Political Sociology

Author : Thomas Janoski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108148093
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The New Handbook of Political Sociology written by Thomas Janoski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political sociology is a large and expanding field with many new developments, and The New Handbook of Political Sociology supplies the knowledge necessary to keep up with this exciting field. Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars in sociology, this volume provides a survey of this vibrant and growing field in the new millennium. The Handbook presents the field in six parts: theories of political sociology, the information and knowledge explosion, the state and political parties, civil society and citizenship, the varieties of state policies, and globalization and how it affects politics. Covering all subareas of the field with both theoretical orientations and empirical studies, it directly connects scholars with current research in the field. A total reconceptualization of the first edition, the new handbook features nine additional chapters and highlights the impact of the media and big data.

So Long Been Dreaming

Author : Nalo Hopkinson
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 1551523167
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book So Long Been Dreaming written by Nalo Hopkinson and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color. Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer and editor Nalo Hopkinson notes that the science fiction/fantasy genre “speaks so much about the experience of being alienated but contains so little writing by alienated people themselves.” It’s an oversight that Hopkinson and Mehan aim to correct with this anthology. The book depicts imagined futures from the perspectives of writers associated with what might loosely be termed the “third world.” It includes stories that are bold, imaginative, edgy; stories that are centered in the worlds of the “developing” nations; stories that dare to dream what we might develop into. The wealth of postcolonial literature has included many who have written insightfully about their pasts and presents. With So Long Been Dreaming they creatively address their futures. Contributors include: Opal Palmer Adisa, Tobias Buckell, Wayde Compton, Hiromi Goto, Andrea Hairston, Tamai Kobayashi, Karin Lowachee, devorah major, Carole McDonnell, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Eden Robinson, Nisi Shawl, Vandana Singh, Sheree Renee Thomas and Greg Van Eekhout. Nalo Hopkinson is the internationally-acclaimed author of Brown Girl in the Ring, Skin Folk, and Salt Roads. Her books have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Tiptree, and Philip K. Dick Awards; Skin Folk won a World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award. Born in Jamaica, Nalo moved to Canada when she was sixteen. She lives in Toronto. Uppinder Mehan is a scholar of science fiction and postcolonial literature. A South Asian Canadian, he currently lives in Boston and teaches at Emerson College.

Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World

Author : G. Arunima
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030795802
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World written by G. Arunima and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African subcontinents. Exploring how love and revolution interrelate, this volume is unique in drawing on theories of affect to interrogate histories of the political, thus linking love and revolution together. The chapters engage with the affinities of those who live with their colonial pasts: crises of expectations, colonial national convulsions, memories of anti-colonial solidarity, even shared radical libraries. It calls attention to the specific and singular way in which notions of ‘love of the world’ were born in a precise moment of anti-colonial struggle: a love of the world for which one would offer one’s life, and for which there had been little precedent in the history of earlier revolutions. It thus offers new ways of understanding the shifts in global traditions of emancipation over two centuries.

Research Handbook on Public Sociology

Author : Lavinia Bifulco
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180037738X
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Public Sociology written by Lavinia Bifulco and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with the key debates and issues in a continuously evolving field, Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi bring together contributions from leading social scientists to debate the enduring relevance of public sociology in light of ongoing changes in the social world.

Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

Author : Vivek Chibber
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844679764
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital written by Vivek Chibber and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating critique, mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial theory. Focusing on the hugely popular Subaltern Studies project, Chibber shows that its foundational arguments are based on a series of analytical and historical misapprehensions. He demonstrates that it is possible to affirm a universalizing theory without succumbing to Eurocentrism or reductionism. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital promises to be a historical milestone in contemporary social theory.

Rethinking Modernity

Author : G. Bhambra
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230206417
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Modernity written by G. Bhambra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing for the idea of connected histories, Bhambra presents a fundamental reconstruction of the idea of modernity in contemporary sociology. She criticizes the abstraction of European modernity from its colonial context and the way non-Western "others" are disregarded. It aims to establish a dialogue in which "others" can speak and be heard.

The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader

Author : Sandra Harding
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822349574
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader written by Sandra Harding and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA collection of foundational and contemporary essays in postcolonial science studies./div

The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies

Author : Graham Huggan
Publisher : Academic
ISBN 13 : 0199588252
Total Pages : 751 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies written by Graham Huggan and published by Academic. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies is a major reference work, which aims to provide informed insights into the possible future of postcolonial studies as well as a comparative overview of the latest developments in the field.

Learning Sciences Research for Teaching

Author : Jan van Aalst
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131744924X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Learning Sciences Research for Teaching written by Jan van Aalst and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning Sciences Research for Teaching provides educators with a fresh understanding of the use and implications of learning sciences scholarship on their studies and professional preparation. A highly interdisciplinary field, the learning sciences has been expressly focused on the advancement of teaching and learning in today’s schools. This introductory yet cutting-edge resource supports graduate students of teaching, leadership, curriculum, and learning design in research methodology courses as they engage with and evaluate research claims; integrate common methods; and understand experimental, case-based, ethnographic, and design-based research studies. Spanning the learning science’s state-of-the-art approaches, achievements, and developments, the book includes robust, accessible coverage of topics such as professional development, quantitative and qualitative data, learning analytics, validity and integrity, and more. Please visit https://dple.nl/learning-sciences-research-for-teaching for additional resources, exercises, and a brief video introduction from the authors!

Rethinking the Social

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004708545
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Social written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-10-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book casts a spotlight on Central and Eastern European societies, making their experiences visible and meaningful within the postcolonial discourse. The modernization theory overlooks important aspects of postsocialist transformation. Consequently, sociological knowledge has drifted apart from the social production of knowledge, and sociology has become alarmingly irrelevant to the people it studies. Therefore, the book departs from preconceived notions of “normal” and “modern” to foreground the importance of actual social experience. After all, Central and Eastern Europe is a valuable yet underestimated social laboratory. Thus, the contributors experiment with new theoretical and methodological approaches to bridge the gap between social research and real people. Contributors are: Izabella Bukraba-Rylska, Jacek Burski, Grzegorz Ekiert, Kaja Gadowska, Anna Giza, Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, Michał Kaczmarczyk, Krzysztof T. Konecki, Mirosława Marody, Adam Mrozowicki, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Anne White, Renata Włoch, Tomasz Zarycki, and Marek Zirk-Sadowski.

The Social Sciences in the Asian Century

Author : Carol Johnson
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1925022595
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Social Sciences in the Asian Century written by Carol Johnson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transcend national boundaries in addressing regional problems, and the challenges for an increasingly globalised higher education sector in the twenty-first century. The chapters are a combination of theoretical reflections and locally focused case studies of processes that are embedded in global dynamics and the changing geopolitics of knowledge. In an increasingly connected world, these reflections will be of global relevance

Medicine, Rationality and Experience

Author : Byron J. Good
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521425766
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Medicine, Rationality and Experience written by Byron J. Good and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing.

Political Geography

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131790284X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Political Geography written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a rapidly changing world in which politics is becoming both more and less predictable at the same time: this makes political geography a particularly exciting topic to study. To make sense of the continuities and disruptions within this political world requires a strongly focused yet flexible text. This new (sixth) edition of Peter Taylor’s Political Geography proves itself fit for the task of coping with a frequently and rapidly changing geo-political landscape. Co-authored again with Colin Flint, it retains the intellectual clarity, rigour and vision of previous editions, based upon its world-systems approach. Reflecting the backdrop of the current global climate, this is the Empire, globalization and climate change edition in which global political change is being driven by three related processes: the role of cities in economic and political networks; the problems facing territorially based notions of democratic politics and citizenship, and the ongoing spectre of war. This sixth edition remains a core text for students of political geography, geopolitics, international relations and political science, as well as more broadly across human geography and the social sciences.

Alienation and Freedom

Author : Frantz Fanon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147425022X
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Alienation and Freedom written by Frantz Fanon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day. Alienation and Freedom collects together unpublished works comprising around half of his entire output – which were previously inaccessible or thought to be lost. This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more personal Fanon and one whose literary and psychiatric works, in particular, take centre stage. These writings provide new depth and complexity to our understanding of Fanon's entire oeuvre revealing more of his powerful thinking about identity, race and activism which remain remarkably prescient. Shedding new light on the work of a major 20th-century philosopher, this disruptive and moving work will shape how we look at the world.

The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography

Author : Kevin R Cox
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446206831
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography written by Kevin R Cox and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thorough and absorbing tour of the sub-discipline... An essential acquisition for any scholar or teacher interested in geographical perspectives on political process." - Sallie Marston, University of Arizona "This unique book is a true encyclopedia of political geography." - Vladimir Kolossov, Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Vice President of the IGU The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography provides a highly contextualised and systematic overview of the latest thinking and research in the field. Edited by key scholars, with international contributions from acknowledged authorities on the relevant research, the Handbook is divided into six sections: Scope and Development of Political Geography: the geography of knowledge, conceptualisations of power and scale. Geographies of the State: state theory, territory and central local relations, legal geographies, borders. Participation and representation: citizenship, electoral geography, media public space and social movements. Political Geographies of Difference: class, nationalism, gender, sexuality and culture. Geography Policy and Governance: regulation, welfare, urban space, and planning. Global Political Geographies: imperialism, post-colonialism, globalization, environmental politics, IR, war and migration. The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography is essential reading for upper level students and scholars with an interest in politics and space.