Southern Theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science
β Scribed by Raewyn Connell
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin; Routledge
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 288
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part I: Northern theory
1 Empire and the creation of a social science
2 Modern general theory and its hidden assumptions
3 Imagining globalisation
Part II: Looking south
4 The discovery of Australia
Part III: Southern theory
5 Indigenous knowledge and African Renaissance
6 Islam and Western dominance
7 Dependency, autonomy and culture
8 Power, violence and the pain of colonialism
Part IV: Antipodean refl ections
9 The silence of the land
10 Social science on a world scale
References
Index
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