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Southern Theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science

✍ Scribed by Raewyn Connell


Publisher
Allen & Unwin; Routledge
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Leaves
288
Category
Library

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✦ 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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