Rethinking Modernity Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imaginatio

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"

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Gurminder K. Bhambra

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Rethinking Modernity

Gurminder K. Bhambra

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Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

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