The Modern World After Colonialism: Remaking the Social Sciences - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1529252121 ISBN 13 : 9781529252125

Editeur : Bristol University Press, 2026

Synopsis

What happens when social science takes colonial histories seriously? This bold textbook rethinks key topics—migration, citizenship, inequality and environment—offering fresh tools to decolonize teaching and challenge the status quo. Essential for reshaping how we learn, teach and think.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

John Holmwood is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. From 2012 to 2014, he was President of the British Sociological Association and in 2014/15, he was Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. He acted as an Expert Witness to the Court in the National College for Teaching and Leadership hearings against teachers arising from the Trojan Horse affair.

Dr Sundari Anitha is Reader at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln. She has researched and written on forced marriage, marriage migrants' experiences of domestic violence, transnational abandonment of women, dowry-related violence, sex selective abortion, gender-based violence in university communities and South Asian women's industrial militancy in the UK. She previously managed a Women's Aid refuge and worked for Asha Projects, a specialist refuge for South Asian survivors of domestic violence and has been active in campaigns and policy-making to combat violence against women and girls since 1999.

Karim Murji is a Professor based in the Graduate School at the University of West London and was previously at the Open University, UK. He has written widely on culture, ethnicity and racism as applied to fields such as race equality, policing, public sociology, and diaspora and identity. Since 2013 he has been part of the editorial team of Sociology, and, with Sarah Neal, he is the Editor of Current Sociology.

Kayleigh Garthwaite is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Birmingham.

Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Sussex.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bristol University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1529252121
• ISBN 13: 9781529252125
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 460
• Éditeur: Bhambra Gurminder
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible