The Social Sciences in a Global Age : Decoding Knowledge Politics Paperback / softback
by Dipankar Sinha
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The book focuses on the status and role of the social sciences in the current millennium.
Drawing inspiration from a range of theorists, it critically examines the key debates on the social science stream and focuses on its ir/relevance in our times in the background of changing state-market dialectics.
It specifically scrutinises knowledge politics of the global times to reveal how the neoliberal project aligns and fuses steep economic ‘conditionalities’ with professional cultural parameters of higher academia to constrain autonomy and weaken radical expressions in social science pedagogy and research.
Asserting that the humanistic core of social sciences has the potential to resist acts of reducing knowledge to a monochromatic form, the book argues that the social science stream can challenge and resist such hegemonic ambitions.
It also identifies and analyses the contradictions, dilemmas, predicaments and false steps of social scientists, and avoids a reductive approach based on the ‘west versus non-west’ binary. The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of the social sciences in general, and of sociology/politics of knowledge, political theory, political sociology and education in particular.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:174 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:25/09/2023
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- ISBN:9780367626921
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:174 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:25/09/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367626921