| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF (xx, 419 pages)) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
Introductory: why social science imperialism? -- Social science, Eurocentrism, Americanization, and imperialism -- Dissecting globalization as a scientific theory -- Globalization theory as repackaged social science imperialism -- Toward de-linking from globalization by the oppressed and exploited -- Epilogue: which way for the oppressed and exploited -- Elusive scientific land of promise -- Road to scientific paradise |
| Summary |
Contemporary social science is a product of the capitalist world-system and Eurocentrism is constitutive of the geoculture of this system characterized by the parochiality of its universalism, assumptions about the superiority of Western civilization and imposition as the sole theory of global progress. The creation of these structures of knowledge, specifically the institutionalization of the social sciences, is a phenomenon that is inextricably linked to the very formation and maturation of Europe's capitalist world system or imperialism. There is therefore nothing that is natural, logical, or accidental about the institutionalization of the social sciences. These Europeanized structures of knowledge are imposed ways of producing knowledge of the world. This Eurocentrism of social science has justifiably come under increasingly vigorous scrutiny, especially in the period since 1945 with the formal decolonization of Africa, Asia, and much of the Caribbean. This book forcefully argues that if social science is to make any progress in the twenty-first century, it must overcome its Eurocentric heritage that has distorted social analyses and its capacity to deal with the problems of the contemporary world and embrace other non-Western funds of knowledge production |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-419) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Globalization -- Political aspects -- Africa
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Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Africa
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Neoliberalism -- Africa
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Capitalism -- Africa
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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Capitalism
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Globalization -- Economic aspects
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Globalization -- Political aspects
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Neoliberalism
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789956792214 |
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9956792217 |
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9956792209 |
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9789956792207 |
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