Decolonizing European Sociology: Unveiling Global Perspectives
In Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. This volume aims to read sociology against its revealing and disposing of its conventional European genealogy of thought and exposing its very national boundaries as limited perimeter to knowledge which are undoubtedly are global interconnections. Europe is considered as enduring center, as subject of sociological production, on the one hand and as main point of departure, as object of theory-building, on the other. However, Europe is basically a product of its colonial and imperial legacies, reflected in the discipline of sociology. Here, the chief aim is to “provincialize” deconstruct and de-center Europe. This means confronting European sociology with its epistemological grounds and multifaceted societal movements, questioning it as a hegemonic center.