Southern Theory presents the case for a radical re-thinking of
social science and its relationships to knowledge, power and
democracy on a world scale.Mainstream social science pictures the
world as understood by the educated and affluent in Europe and
North America. From Weber and Keynes to Friedman and Foucault,
theorists from the global North dominate the imagination of social
scientists, and the reading lists of students, all over the world.
For most of modern history, the majority world has served social
science only as a data mine.Yet the global South does produce
knowledge and understanding of society. Through vivid accounts of
critics and theorists, Raewyn Connell shows how social theory from
the world periphery has power and relevance for understanding our
changing world from al-Afghani at the dawn of modern social
science, to Raul Prebisch in industrialising Latin America, Ali
Shariati in revolutionary Iran, Paulin Hountondji in post-colonial
Benin, Veena Das and Ashis Nandy in contemporary India, and many
others.With clarity and verve, Southern Theory introduces readers
to texts, ideas and debates that have emerged from Australia's
Indigenous people, from Africa, Latin America, south and south-west
Asia. It deals with modernisation, gender, race, class, cultural
domination, neoliberalism, violence, trade, religion, identity,
land, and the structure of knowledge itself.Southern Theory shows
how this tremendous resource has been disregarded by mainstream
social science. It explores the challenges of doing theory in the
periphery, and considers the role Southern perspectives should have
in a globally connected system of knowledge. Southern Theory draws
on sociology, anthropology, history, psychology, economics,
philosophy and cultural studies, with wide-ranging implications for
social science in the 21st century.
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