BOOK CHAPTERS

forthcoming ‘‘Open Borders’: A Postcolonial Critique’ in Angela Million, Christian Haid, Ignacio Castillo Ulloa, Nina Baur (eds) Spatial Transformation: Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces. New York: Routledge

 

2020 ‘Undoing the Epistemic Disavowal of the Haitian Revolution: A Contribution to Global Social Thought’’ in Boaventura de Sousa Santos (ed.) Knowledges Born in the Struggles: Constructing Epistemologies of the South. London: Routledge

 

2019 ‘On the Politics of Selective Memory in Europe: Rethinking ‘National’ Histories in Imperial Contextin Chris Whitehead, Susannah Eckersley, Mads Daugbjerg, Gonul Bozoglu (eds) Dimensions of Heritage and Memory: Multiple Europes and the Politics of Crisis. London: Routledge

 

2018 ‘The Postcolonial State’ in Robbie Shilliam and Olivia Rutazibwa (eds) Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics. London: Routledge.

 

2018 ‘Colonialism and Postcolonialism’ in J. Michael Ryan (ed.) Core Concepts in Sociology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

 

2017 ‘Postcolonial Europe: Afterword’ in Lars Jensen, Julia Suárez-Krabbe, Christian Groes-Green and Zoran Lee Pecic.(eds) Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires. London: Rowman and Littlefield International.

 

2017 ‘Locating Brexit in the Pragmatics of Race, Citizenship and Empire’ in William Outhwaite (ed) Brexit: Sociological Responses. London: Anthem Press pdf available here

 

2017 ‘“Our Island Story”: The Dangerous Politics of Belonging in Austere Times’ in Stefan Jonsson and Julia Willen (eds) Austere Histories in European Societies: Social Exclusion and the Contest of Colonial Memories. London: Routledge.

 

2015. ‘Modernity: History of the Concept’ in James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 15, pp. 692–696. Oxford: Elsevier.

 

2014. ‘Towards a Postcolonial Global Sociology’ in Wiebke Keim et al (ed.) International Debates around Social Science Knowledge on a World Scale: Made in Circulation, pp223-236. Ashgate: Aldershot.

 

2011. ‘Introduction’ and ‘Conclusion’ in Daniel Orrells, Gurminder K Bhambra, and Tessa Roynon (eds) African Athena: New Agendas, pp1-16 and pp414-17. Oxford: Oxford University Press
(co-authored with Daniel Orrells and Tessa Roynon, my contribution, 25%)

 

2011. ‘Cosmopolitanism and Postcolonial Critique’ in Maria Rovisco and Magdalena Nowicka (eds) The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism, pp313-28. Ashgate: Aldershot

 

2011. ‘Rage of the “Machine”’ in Valerie Smith, Susanne Stemmler, Cordula Hamschmidt (eds) On Rage pp214-17. Revolver Publishing: Berlin

 

2010. ‘Sociology after Postcolonialism: Provincialized Cosmopolitanism and Connected Sociologies’ in Manuela Boatcă, Sérgio Costa, Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez (eds) Decolonizing European Sociology: Trans-disciplinary Approaches, pp33-47. Ashgate: Aldershot

Raewyn Connell in Current Sociology, May 2011: “Gurminder Bhambra’s following essay “Sociology after Postcolonialism” is one of the two high points of the collection. Bhambra’s clear and thoughtful text shows why a postcolonial critique is needed within mainstream sociology, and why a doctrine of “multiple modernities” will not do the job. She takes apart the agenda of “cosmopolitanism” advanced by Ulrich Beck and others, showing this does not escape Eurocentrism. Finally, she looks at the idea of multi-centered global sociology, offering criticisms of Burawoy’s and Connell’s versions of this, and briefly showing the depth of the reconstruction sociology has to undergo—including deep rethinking of its basic categories and its history. This chapter would be an excellent text for undergraduate as well as graduate courses on sociological theory.”

 

2009 ‘Postcolonial Europe: Or, Understanding Europe in Times of the Postcolonial’ Chris Rumford (ed.) Sage Handbook of European Studies, pp69-85. Sage: London

 

2009. ‘Introduction: “Silence” and Human Rights’ in Gurminder K. Bhambra and Robbie Shilliam (eds) Silencing Human Rights: Critical Engagements with a Contested Project, pp1-15. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke (co-authored with Robbie Shilliam, my contribution, 50%)

 

2009. ‘Conclusion: Human Rights in Contemporary Global Perspective’ in Gurminder K. Bhambra and Robbie Shilliam (eds) Silencing Human Rights: Critical Engagements with a Contested Project, pp242-50. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke (co-authored with Robbie Shilliam, my contribution, 50%)

 

2009. ‘Introduction: 1968 in Retrospect’ Gurminder K. Bhambra and Ipek Demir (eds) 1968 in Retrospect: History, Politics, Alterity, ppxi-xix. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke (co-authored with Ipek Demir, my contribution, 50%)

 

2007. ‘Multiple Modernities or Global Interconnections: Understanding the Global Post the Colonial’ in Peter Wagner and Nathalie Karagiannis (eds) Varieties of World-Making: Beyond Globalization, pp59-73. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool

 

2006. ‘Culture, Identity, and Rights: Challenging Contemporary Discourses of Belonging’ in Nira Yuval-Davis, Kalpana Kannabiran, and Ulrike M. Vieten (eds), The Situated Politics of Belonging, pp32-41. ISA/ Sage Publications: London