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Postcolonial theory has mostly been confined to literary studies
and the humanities, but it has been slowly making its way into
social science. This is a welcome development but poses new
challenges. How can postcolonial thought be most fruitfully
translated and incorporated into sociology? This special volume
brings together leading sociologists to offer some answers and
examples. The chapters offer new postcolonial readings of canonical
thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Robert Park;
consider whether or not postcolonial theory is compatible with
sociology; explore the relationship between knowledge and colonial
power; offer critical perspectives on the sociology of race; ponder
the implications of postcolonial theory for global sociology;
creatively employ postcolonial concepts such as hybridity; and
excavate the social theories of occluded thinkers in India. This
volume will be an important guide for scholars and students in the
social sciences who are interested in what postcolonial thought has
to offer.
In this special issue, we address what we refer to as 'perversity
of the political' or 'perverse politics': namely, the assumptions
political theory and movements, and in our specific case feminism,
often make on behalf of their subjects, and how their subjects, in
return, perform individual and collective contrariness, unruliness
and resistance to what is expected or desired from their
'subjectivity'. Specifically focusing on the themes of 'false
consciousness', multiplicity, and uneasy alliances, the papers
collected here seek to empirically lay out a number of such
'perverse' moments, and offer anti-imperialist feminist
alternatives to second wave feminism's often reductive
understandings of freedom; emancipation; oppression; empowerment
and democracy.
Social theory and research has long faced the limitations of its
conventional Eurocentric focus. The essays in this volume offer new
thoughts and empirical studies for transcending those limitations.
A continuation of PPST's previous volume on "Postcolonial
Sociology," this volume, "Decentering Social Theory," questions old
categories, advances new postcolonial themes in social science, and
debates alternative theoretical paradigms. The "Scholarly
Controversies" section contains a critical exchange on "Southern
Theory" between Raewyn Connell and Patricia Hill Collins, Mustafa
Emirbayer, Raka Ray and Isaac Ariail Reed.
Postcolonial theory has enjoyed wide influence in the humanities
but for social science, and in particular sociology, its
implications remain elusive. This special volume brings together
leading sociologists to explore the concept of "postcolonial
sociology," with brand new postcolonial readings of canonical
thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Robert Park.
Chapters consider whether or not postcolonial theory is compatible
with sociology; explore the relationship between knowledge and
colonial power; and offer critical perspectives on the sociology of
race and the implications of postcolonial theory for global
sociology. They also unravel the complex entanglements of
sociology, area studies, and postcolonial studies; give creative
deployments of postcolonial concepts such as hybridity; and
critical excavations of sociological thought in India and Mexico.
In so doing this volume is among the first to craft newsociologies
informed by postcolonial criticism.
As economic stagnation freezes the globe; capitalism is
increasingly questioned; war, revolution and political instability
unsettles the Middle East; and President Obama's campaign for the
Presidency looms, Volume 23 of Political Power and Social Theory
reflects on these and related issues. Chapters in this volume
discuss the meaning of revolution, the origins of neoliberalism in
India, identity formation in a Chicago social movement, the
Palestinian National Question, and the Black middle-class in the
US. Additionally, in the Scholarly Controversy section, Fred Block
questions whether the concept of "capitalism" should be
problematized entirely.
This volume of "Political Power and Social Theory" includes a
selection of papers exploring Obama and the Politics of Race &
Religion. Chapters examine the complex dynamics of race relations
and racial meaning in America under the Obama administration. The
"Scholarly Controversies" section features a debate on Obama and
religion in the United States. This volume will be among the first
to critically assess the meanings of race and religion in America
under the Obama administration, featuring controversial chapters by
Phil Gorksi of Yale University and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva of Duke
University, among others.
"Political Power and Social Theory" is an annual review, committed
to advancing our interdisciplinary, critical understanding of the
linkages between social relations, political power, and historical
development. Alongside peer-reviewed chapters dealing with a
diversity of topics, this volume contains a special section on the
politics of the 'new middle class' in the global south and
post-socialist societies. Over the past few decades, globalization
and urbanization have contributed to the development of a newly
educated urban middle class around the world, but this new class
has been rarely studied. Filling this void, the chapters in this
section examine the middle classes in the developing world in areas
as diverse as the Middle East, India, South Africa, the former
Soviet Union, and Latin America. This is one of the only volumes
examining the new urban middle classes in emerging economies.
Exploring identity-formation, social change, urbanization and
politics among the new middle class, the chapters together offer
new insights on this understudied social group and raise
provocative questions about politics and social change in the early
21st century around the globe.
It is an exciting time to consider changes in the field of
comparative-historical sociology, as the discipline seeks to
accommodate both old and new trends as well as the transforming
spatial scales in which political power and social theory are
increasingly embedded. Volume 20 of "Political Power and Social
Theory" starts the ball rolling by showcasing articles that pursue
similar themes. The question of what is old and what is new hovers
over most of the contributions, particularly the peer-reviewed
chapters in parts I and II, which consider such long-standing
socio-historical concerns as power structure theory, class-based
collective action, and empire - but examine them through new
conceptual, methodological, and historical lenses. This year's
volume also offers a critical treatment of the spatial or
territorial dynamics of state hegemony, class power, ideologies of
governance, and citizenship - with the latter theme most well
developed in debate over the new geographies of citizenship in the
Scholarly Controversy Section as well as in part-II's guest-edited
section on Empire and Colonialism.
In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the
Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by
seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a
colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United
States nevertheless conceived of its rule as exceptional-an
exercise in benevolence rather than in tyranny and exploitation. In
this volume, Julian Go and Anne L. Foster untangle this peculiar
self-fashioning and insist on the importance of studying U.S.
colonial rule in the context of other imperialist ventures. A
necessary expansion of critical focus, The American Colonial State
in the Philippines is the first systematic attempt to examine the
creation and administration of the American colonial state from
comparative, global perspectives. Written by social scientists and
historians, these essays investigate various aspects of American
colonial government through comparison with and contextualization
within colonial regimes elsewhere in the world-from British
Malaysia and Dutch Indonesia to Japanese Taiwan and America's other
major overseas colony, Puerto Rico. Contributors explore the
program of political education in the Philippines; constructions of
nationalism, race, and religion; the regulation of opium;
connections to politics on the U.S. mainland; and anticolonial
resistance. Tracking the complex connections, circuits, and
contests across, within, and between empires that shaped America's
colonial regime, The American Colonial State in the Philippines
sheds new light on the complexities of American imperialism and
turn-of-the-century colonialism. Contributors. Patricio N.
Abinales, Donna J. Amoroso, Paul Barclay, Vince Boudreau, Anne L.
Foster, Julian Go, Paul A. Kramer
The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory was a watershed event
for the fledgling United States. Adding some 829,000 square miles
of territory, the Louisiana Purchase set a striking precedent of
Presidential power and brought to the surface profound legal and
constitutional questions. As the nation continued to expand
westward and into the Pacific and Caribbean, critical social,
political and constitutional questions arose that greatly tested
American resolve and reshaped the nation's founding premises. In
this exciting collection, Sanford Levinson and Bartholomew Sparrow
bring together noted scholars in American history, constitutional
law, and political science to examine role that the Louisiana
Purchase played in shaping both the expansionist policies of the
nineteenth century and critical interpretations of the
Constitution. The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803
1898 provides a fascinating overview of how the U.S. Constitution
and the American political system is inextricably tied to the
Louisiana Purchase and the territorial expansion of the United
States."
Bringing together historical sociologists from Sociology and
International Relations, this collection lays out the
international, transnational, and global dimensions of social
change. It reveals the shortcomings of existing scholarship and
argues for a deepening of the 'third wave' of historical sociology
through a concerted treatment of transnational and global dynamics
as they unfold in and through time. The volume combines theoretical
interventions with in-depth case studies. Each chapter moves beyond
binaries of 'internalism' and 'externalism,' offering a relational
approach to a particular thematic: the rise of the West, the
colonial construction of sexuality, the imperial origins of state
formation, the global origins of modern economic theory, the
international features of revolutionary struggles, and more. By
bringing this sensibility to bear on a wide range of issue-areas,
the volume lays out the promise of a truly global historical
sociology.
Social scientists have long been resistant to the set of ideas
known as "postcolonial thought." Meanwhile, postcolonial scholars
have considered social science to be an impoverished discipline
that is part of the intellectual problem for postcolonial
liberation, not the solution. This divergence is fitting, given
that postcolonial thought emerged from the anticolonial revolutions
of the twentieth century and has since become an enterprise in the
academic humanities, while social theory was born as an
intellectual justification for empire and has since been
institutionalized in social science. Given such divisions - and at
times direct opposition - is it possible to reconcile the two?
Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory explores the divergences and
generative convergences between these two distinct bodies of
thought. It asks how the intellectually insurrectionary ideas of
postcolonial thinkers, such as Franz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Edward
Said, Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak, among others, pose a radical
epistemic challenge to social theory. It charts the different ways
in which social theory might be refashioned to meet the challenge
and excavates the often hidden sociological assumptions of
postcolonial thought. While various scholars suggest that
postcolonial thought and social science are incompatible, this book
illuminates how they are mutually beneficial, and argues for a
third wave of postcolonial thought emerging from social science but
also surmounting the narrow confines of disciplinary boundaries.
Bringing together historical sociologists from Sociology and
International Relations, this collection lays out the
international, transnational, and global dimensions of social
change. It reveals the shortcomings of existing scholarship and
argues for a deepening of the 'third wave' of historical sociology
through a concerted treatment of transnational and global dynamics
as they unfold in and through time. The volume combines theoretical
interventions with in-depth case studies. Each chapter moves beyond
binaries of 'internalism' and 'externalism,' offering a relational
approach to a particular thematic: the rise of the West, the
colonial construction of sexuality, the imperial origins of state
formation, the global origins of modern economic theory, the
international features of revolutionary struggles, and more. By
bringing this sensibility to bear on a wide range of issue-areas,
the volume lays out the promise of a truly global historical
sociology.
Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful
empires in modern history: the United States and Britain.
Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique,
Patterns of Empire shows how the policies, practices, forms, and
historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the
British, leading up to the present climate of economic decline,
treacherous intervention in the Middle East, and overextended
imperial confidence. A critical exercise in revisionist history and
comparative social science, this book also offers a challenging
theory of empire that recognizes the agency of non-Western peoples,
the impact of global fields, and the limits of imperial power.
Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful
empires in modern history: the United States and Britain.
Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique,
Patterns of Empire shows how the policies, practices, forms, and
historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the
British, leading up to the present climate of economic decline,
treacherous intervention in the Middle East, and overextended
imperial confidence. A critical exercise in revisionist history and
comparative social science, this book also offers a challenging
theory of empire that recognizes the agency of non-Western peoples,
the impact of global fields, and the limits of imperial power.
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