Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship - (Decolonization and Social Worlds) by Sujata Patel & Maureen A Eger (Paperback)
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- Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
- About the Author: Sujata Patel is Professor Emerita at the University of Hyderabad in India and a Visiting Scholar at the Freiburg Advanced Studies Centre in Germany.
- 304 Pages
- Social Science, Sociology
- Series Name: Decolonization and Social Worlds
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Book Synopsis
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This volume brings together key scholars from across the globe to explore anti-colonial and anti-imperial perspectives to help transform our ways of the looking at the world. Collectively, these chapters introduce new frameworks and methodologies that challenge the dominance of Western paradigms while highlighting the multiplicity of issues and themes emerging from colonialized countries, past and present.
By rethinking the foundational assumptions of European history and society, this book offers new frameworks to comprehend the past and future of social science and humanities, while inspiring readers to approach knowledge about human societies through a truly global, anti-colonial lens.
About the Author
Sujata Patel is Professor Emerita at the University of Hyderabad in India and a Visiting Scholar at the Freiburg Advanced Studies Centre in Germany.
Maureen A. Eger is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Umeå University in Sweden and a 2024-25 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in the United States.
