BOOKS

MONOGRAPHS

 

RM2007

Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination
Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, 2007.
Translated into Japanese (2011) and Turkish (2015).

 

Winner of the 2008 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.

 

“For those who value postcolonial scholarship, this work is a necessary read. It succeeds in bringing to the fore the critical issues underpinning various social scientific disciplines, particularly sociology and history.” Gregory Lee CuellarPostcolonial Networks

 

Review of Rethinking Modernity (in German) (PDF Document) and another in Turkish

 

 

 

CS2014Connected Sociologies
Theory for a Global Age Series, Bloomsbury Academic: London, 2014.

Read the book for free online.

 

“Drawing on her previous path-breaking critique of Eurocentric modernity, Bhambra confronts us with one crucial question: can sociology account for a world that underwent globalization long before sociology took any notice and was prey to colonialism, dispossession and violence without sociology paying much attention either?” Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

 

 

 

 

Colonialism and Modern Social Theory
Polity, 2021, with John Holmwood

 

 

Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised instead around ideas of nation state and capitalist economy. In this book, we argue for a reconstruction of social theory that should lead to a better understanding of contemporary social thought, its limitations, and its wider possibilities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

See more books in the Theory for a Global Age Series.

 

 

EDITED VOLUMES

 

The Sage Handbook of Global SociologyThe Sage Handbook of Global Sociology
Co-edited with Lucy Mayblin, Kathryn Medien, and Mara Viveros-Vigoya, Sage, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Imperial Inequalities: The politics of economic governance across European empires
Co-edited with Julia McClure, Manchester University Press, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Decolonizing the University
Co-edited with Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nisancioglu, Pluto Press: London, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

euro-cosmo-book

 

European Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Societies
Co-edited with John Narayan, Routledge International Library of Sociology: London, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AA2011

African Athena: New Agendas
Co-edited with Dan Orrells & Tessa Roynon, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2011.

Read the Introduction.

 

African Athena evokes with a breath-taking scope of vision the different ways in which Black Athena has acted as a foundational text for those interested in teasing out the dynamics of cultural engagements between Europe and Africa in both antiquity and modernity. African Athena is a triumph and will serve as the starting point for research in the field for many years to come.” Adam Lecznar, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.06.40

 

 

 

 

SHR2009

Silencing Human Rights: Critical Engagements with a Contested Project
Co-edited with Robbie Shilliam, Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, 2009.

 

Read a sample chapter: ‘How oppression thrives where truth is not allowed a voice’: The Spanish Polemic about the American Indians – M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado

 

 

 

 

 

 

19682009

1968 in Retrospect: History, Theory, Alterity
Co-edited with Ipek Demir, Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, 2009.

 

Read a sample chapter: Freedom Now! 1968 as a Turning Point for Black American Student Activism – Patricia Hill Collins

 

“Perhaps it is best described as a set of reflections on the intellectual consequences of the events of that year” Paul Bagguley, Social Movement Studies 9 (4) 2010