Southern Theory Social Science and the Global Dynamics of Knowledge

Name: Southern Theory Social Science and the Global Dynamics of Knowledge
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ISBN: 9780745642499

ISBN-10: 0745642497

ISBN-13: 9780745642499

Edition: 2007

Authors: Raewyn Connell

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In Southern Theory Raewyn Connell presents the case for a new 'world social science' - one that is inclusive of many voices - by arguing for a more democratic global recognition of social theory from societies outside the dominant European and North American metropole. Intellectual production of the majority 'southern' world does in fact include theory, though its contribution is often marginalised and intellectually discredited by the metropole. Connell shows how social theory about the modern world from peripheral societies is equal in intellectual rigour and is often of greater political relevance to our changing world. Beginning with an examination of the hidden assumptions of modern…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 11/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

R. W. Connell is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney in Australia. He is the author of The Men and the Boys (California, 2001) among other books on gender.



Introduction


Acknowledgments



Northern theory



Empire and the creation of a social science



Modern general theory and its hidden assumptions



Imagining globalisation



Looking south



The discovery of Australia



Southern theory



Indigenous knowledge and African Renaissance



Islam and Western dominance



Dependency, autonomy and culture



Power, violence and the pain of colonialism



Antipodean reflections



The silence of the land



Social science on a world scale


References


Index