Post-western Revolution in Sociology: From China to Europe
Laurence Roulleau-Berger, "Post-western Revolution in Sociology: From China to Europe "
English | ISBN: 9004309721 | 2016 | 232 pages | PDF | 1203 KB
English | ISBN: 9004309721 | 2016 | 232 pages | PDF | 1203 KB
Within a movement towards the circulation and globalisation of knowledge, new centres and new peripheries form and new hierarchies appear - more or less discretely - producing competition and rivalry in the development of "new" knowledge. Centres of gravity in social sciences have been displaced towards Asia, especially China. We have entered a period of de-westernization of knowledge and co-production of transnational knowledge. This is a scientific revolution in the social sciences which imposes detours, displacements, reversals. It means a turning point in the history of social sciences. From the Chinese experience in sociology the author is opening a Post-Western Space where after Post-Colonial Studies, she is speaking about the emergence of a Post-Western Sociology.