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Introduction.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: Northern Theory.
Empire and the creation of a social science.
Modern general theory and its hidden assumptions.
Imagining globalisation.
Part II: Looking South.
The discovery of Australia.
Part III: Southern Theory.
Indigenous knowledge and African Renaissance.
Islam and Western dominance.
Dependency, autonomy and culture.
Power, violence and the pain of colonialism.
Part IV: Antipodean Reflections.
The silence of the land.
Social science on a world scale.
References.
Index
Raewyn Connell is University Chair at the University of Sydney.
Awarded the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize for Best Authored Book in
Australian Sociology 2005-2008 "Profoundly generative ... an
original book, elegantly written and covering a vast gamut of
topics."
British Journal of Sociology of Education "It weaves an
awe-inspiring command of knowledge into a devastating critique of
metropolitan social thought ... no ordinary academic text ...
widely accessible to an intelligent readership spanning an array of
disciplines."
Journal of Sociology "A multifaceted argument. It narrates an
alternative 'origin story' for sociology and, by implication,
anthropology."
Australian Humanities Review
"I highly recommend Southern Theory for every social
scientist."
Transnational Social Review "Raewyn Connell makes a strong claim to
'propose a new path for social theory that will help social science
to serve democratic purposes on a world scale' ... This book offers
unequivocal points of engagement: what is the text(ure) and
mess(age) of the intellectual traditions that inform what is taught
in universities in anglo/european/northamerican centres of
learning? It stimulated me to recognize the elisions and gaps in
the knowledge that I take for granted, and to think differently
about the global constructions of sociological knowledge."
New Zealand Geographer
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