Social Theory and Asian Dialogues Cultivating Planetary Conversation
Critically exploring the presuppositions of contemporary social theory, this collection argues for a trans-civilizational dialogue and a deepening of the universe of intellectual discourse in order to transform sociology into a truly planetary conversatio
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Ananta Kumar Giri
Social Theory and Asian Dialogues
Ananta Kumar Giri Editor
Social Theory and Asian Dialogues Cultivating Planetary Conversations
Editor Ananta Kumar Giri Madras Institute of Development Studies Chennai, India
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For Raimundo Panikkar, Lu Xiabo, Upendra Baxi and Ganesh Devy
Foreword
In the last two decades there has been a surge of interest in the problem of de-colonizing the social sciences. This is not a new idea. As early as the 1930s, intellectuals from the colonized world such as C. L. R. James and Jomo Kenyatta were turning history and anthropology around as vehicles for a critique of colonial power. The Black Jacobins and Facing Mount Kenya are classics of world social science, still eminently worth reading. In the great period of independence struggles and political decolonization from the 1940s to the 1960s, intellectuals including Hussein Alatas, Al-e Ahmad, Frantz Fanon and Kwame Nkrumah offered strong critiques of intellectual and cultural dependence. Yet the hegemony of the old imperial metropole persisted in new forms, as post-colonial states built university systems and installed social science in them. Wealthy US-based foundations (Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie) funded worldwide expansion of an Americanized version of social science, a choice given an extra e
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