Awards

• Short-listed for European Amalfi Prize for Sociology 2008
• Shortlisted for European Amalfi Prize for Sociology 2008.

Overview

Arguing for the idea of connected histories, Bhambra presents a fundamental reconstruction of the idea of modernity in contemporary sociology. She criticizes the abstraction of European modernity from its colonial context and the way non-Western 'others' are disregarded. It aims to establish a dialogue in which 'others' can speak and be heard.

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Winner of the 2008 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology 'Bhambra admirably unpacks prevailing narratives of modernity and Europe, while proposing the use of 'connected histories' to improve contemporary sociology' - Sociology

Shortlisted for the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology. Winner of the 2008 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. For more information about the prize, see http://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/PAM.htm

Author Information

GURMINDER K. BHAMBRA is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Keele, UK. She has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Sussex and the London School of Economics. She has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex and a Research Associate at the Five College Women's Studies Research Centre at Mount Holyoke College, USA, where she was also Visiting Professor in Critical Social Thought.

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