Rethinking Modernity - Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

The second edition of this influential book addresses how the experiences and claims of non-European ''others'' have been rendered invisible to the standard narratives and analytical frameworks of sociological understandings of modernity. In challenging the dominant, Euro-centred accounts of the emergence and development of modernity, Bhambra puts forward an argument for ''connected histories'' in the reconstruction of historical sociology at a global level. This updated version of the original, published in 2007, adds a new preface which explores key themes that Bhambra has further developed over the intervening years: specifically, how the rethinking of modernity enables us to reconstruct sociology and a call for a ''reparatory sociology'' committed to the repair of the social sciences ​and the securing of global justice.