Science and the Decolonization of Social Theory (eBook)

Unthinking Modernity

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XI, 256 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-51686-2 (ISBN)

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Science and the Decolonization of Social Theory - Gennaro Ascione
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This book addresses the ideological figure of modernity, its presumed historical significance as an era, and its theoretical adequacy as a frame. It shows how science is evoked to prevent the sociological imagination from elaborating non-Eurocentric categories and terminologies that are more adequate for a global age. The idea of modernity should not only be contested, but radically unthought in its foundational assumptions. These assumptions inform concepts such as secularization, emancipation, the 'global' and accumulation of capital. This book frees these concepts from ethnocentrism and discloses a path toward a new, non-Eurocentric, global social theory. 

Gennaro Ascione explores the transformative potential of decolonizing knowledge through a radical reconsideration of the historical and epistemological role that the intellectual reference to science plays in the construction of concepts. This ground-breaking work challenges social theorists to think globally beyond modernity, bringing together social theory and science in an unprecedented way. Importantly, it makes accessible a new space of missing theorization for further developments and inquiries in the field.



Gennaro Ascione is a researcher in social theory, history of ideas and the epistemology of social sciences at the University of Naples l'Orientale, Italy. He is an associate researcher at the Centre for Social Theory at the University of Warwick, UK, the Centre for Arts and Science, Santa Monica at University of Barcelona, Spain, and the Institute for Research on Indian and International Studies at Delhi University, India. He is a member of the British International Studies Association Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial Working Group.
This book addresses the ideological figure of modernity, its presumed historical significance as an era, and its theoretical adequacy as a frame. It shows how science is evoked to prevent the sociological imagination from elaborating non-Eurocentric categories and terminologies that are more adequate for a global age. The idea of modernity should not only be contested, but radically unthought in its foundational assumptions. These assumptions inform concepts such as secularization, emancipation, the 'global' and accumulation of capital. This book frees these concepts from ethnocentrism and discloses a path toward a new, non-Eurocentric, global social theory. Gennaro Ascione explores the transformative potential of decolonizing knowledge through a radical reconsideration of the historical and epistemological role that the intellectual reference to science plays in the construction of concepts. This ground-breaking work challenges social theorists to think globally beyond modernity, bringing together social theory and science in an unprecedented way. Importantly, it makes accessible a new space of missing theorization for further developments and inquiries in the field.

Gennaro Ascione is a researcher in social theory, history of ideas and the epistemology of social sciences at the University of Naples l’Orientale, Italy. He is an associate researcher at the Centre for Social Theory at the University of Warwick, UK, the Centre for Arts and Science, Santa Monica at University of Barcelona, Spain, and the Institute for Research on Indian and International Studies at Delhi University, India. He is a member of the British International Studies Association Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial Working Group.

Introduction: The Epistemological Ritual of Modernity.- Chapter 1. The Scientific Revolution and the Dilemmas of Ethnocentrism.- Chapter 2. The Indissoluble Nexus between Modernity and Eurocentrism.- Chapter 3. Secularization as Ideology.- Chapter 4. Emancipation as Governamentality.- Chapter 5. The Predicament of the 'Global'.- Chapter 6. 'Degenerative' Capitalism.- Conclusion. The Future of Social Theory.- Appendix. Glosses on Method.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.8.2016
Zusatzinfo XI, 256 p.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Technik
Schlagworte anti-colonial • Capitalism • Decolonial • Decolonising • Eurocentricity • History of Science • philosophy of science • Post-colonial • Science and Technology Studies • Sinocentrism • Sociology • STS
ISBN-10 1-137-51686-0 / 1137516860
ISBN-13 978-1-137-51686-2 / 9781137516862
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