Critical thought about global social sciences / by Michael Kuhn and Hebe Vessuri Section I: Critiques of critiques of the 'European' social sciences ; Post-colonialism and social theory revisited / by Kwang Yeong Shin 21st century challenges to social and economic sciences: global sciences of the economy and of individual behavior / by Huri Islamoglu Towards world social sciences. Why criticizing 'Western Hegemony' does not help / by Doris Weidemann Why arriving at imperial thought is not an accident of critical sociological thinking but the consequent endpoint of international sociological thinking / by Michael Kuhn Section II: The European universalism ; The European comprehension of the world. Early modern science and Eurocentrism / by Mauricio Nieto Olarte Institutional re-structuring in the social science world: seeds of change / by Hebe Vessuri and Carmen Bueno What happened to the spread of universal ideas? / by Reiner Grundmann Section III: The social science world under the 'European' universalism and beyond ; Intervening in the geopolitics of travelling theory. Constraints, limitations and possibilities / by Sujata Patel The impact of internationalization on post-Soviet social sciences and humanities / by Igor Yegorov and Pal Tamas Poverty and social sciences. Pauperology as apology for modernity / by Kumaran Rajagopal Academic working culture: shifting from national competitions towards transnational collaborations / by Kazumi Okamoto. |