Decolonizing European sociology [[electronic resource] ] : transdisciplinary approaches / / edited by Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Manuela Boatca, Sérgio Costa

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792419303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Farnham ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2010
• ISBN: 1-315-57619-8; 1-317-15376-6; 1-317-15375-8; 1-282-57238-5; 9786612572388; 0-7546-9723-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Collana: Global connections
• Altri autori (Persone): Gutiérrez RodríguezEncarnación; BoatcăManuela; CostaSérgio <1962->
• Disciplina: 301.09182/1
• Soggetti: Sociology - Europe; Postcolonialism - Europe
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction: Decolonizing European Sociology: Different Paths towards a Pending Project; Part I Unsettling Foundations; 1 Postcolonial Sociology: A Research Agenda; 2 Sociology After Postcolonialism: Provincialized Cosmopolitanisms and Connected Sociologies; 3 Decolonizing Postcolonial Rhetoric; Part II Pluralizing Modernity; 4 Different Roads to Modernity and Their Consequences: A Sketch; 5 New Modernities: What's New?; 6 European Self-Presentations and Narratives Challenged by Islam: Secular Modernity in Question; Part III Questioning Politics of Difference7 Eurocentrism, Sociology, Secularity; 8 Wounded Subjects: Sexual Exceptionalism and the Moral Panic on 'Migrant Homophobia' in Germany; 9 The Perpetual Redrawing of Cultural Boundaries: Central Europe in the Light of Today's Realities; Part IV Border-Thinking; 10 Integration as Colonial Pedagogy of ; Postcolonial Immigrants and People of Colour; 11 The Coloniality of Power and Ethnic Affinity in Migration Policy: The Spanish Case; 12 Not all the Women Want to be White: Decolonizing Beauty Studies; Part V Looking South; 13 South of Every North; 14 From the Postmodern to the Postcolonial - and Beyond Both15 Critical Geopolitics and the Decolonization of Area Studies; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around key sociological concepts and themes, this book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of sociology through an assessment of the new theoretical developments.