Beyond the Social Sciences

The social sciences and humanities worldwide are discovering the necessity to self-critically reshape their theorizing: The first critique of social science theorizing calls for ‘globalizing’, the second, parallel critique, for ‘de-colonizing’ social thought. In his highly topical book,...

La théorie culturelle et esthétique postcoloniale fixe les difficultés du continent africain dans une stylistique de l’horreur et une anthropologie de l’échec et de l’impuissance culturelle. Elle produit une lecture minoritaire, marginale et hybride des productions artistiques africaines,...

Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts entdecken die Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften weltweit die Notwendigkeit, ihre Theoriebildung selbstkritisch umgestalten zu müssen. Die erste Kritik sozialwissenschaftlicher Theoriebildung fordert eine „Globalisierung“, die zweite, parallel geführte Kritik, ihre...

The concept of concurrences is a blanket term for challenging dominating statements of the past and present. Concurrent stories have varying claims to reality and fiction, as well as different, diverging, and at times competing claims to society, culture, identity, and historical past. Dominant...

That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversities has become common sense. It was the social sciences that gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories. Since then, social science theorizing applies to any social phenomenon across the world...

The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by “subaltern” social sciences, their “talking back”, has become a frequent line of reflection in...

At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences discover an epochal “turn” making it necessary to revolutionize their theory-building: As a response to what they call the globalization of the social, they find the need to globalize their theorizing as well. It is odd to discover...

In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not follow the definition for scientific knowledge as applied by the European social sciences as an alternative concept of knowledge, as “indigenous” knowledge. Perception has changed with time: Not only has...

This innovative book provides new perspectives on the globalization of knowledge and the notion of hegemonic sciences. Tying together contributions of authors from all across the world, it challenges existing theories of hegemonic sciences and sheds new light on how they have been and are being...