Changing Theory - Concepts From the Global South

This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, it explores the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere.

List of contents

1. Changing Theory: Thinking Concepts from the Global South Part I: Relation 2. Ubuntu/Guanxi 3. Tarbiyya Part II: Commensuration 4. Logic 5. Andāj 6. Izithunguthu Part III: The Political 7. Eddembe 8. Minzu 9. Kavi 10. Rajo guṇa Part IV: The Social 11. Asabiyya 12. Dadani 13. Marumakkathāyam Part V: Words in Motion 14. Rantau 15. Musāfir 16. Feitiço /Umbanda Part VI: Rooted Words 17. Nongqayi/Nongqai 18. Naam Part VII: Indeterminacy 19. Pajubā 20. Ardhanāriswara Part VIII: Insurrection 21. Awqāt/Aukāt

About the author

Dilip M. Menon is the Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, and Director, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa. He is a historian of South Asia and has recently been working with oceanic histories and questions of epistemology from the Global South. His recent publications include the co-edited volumes Capitalisms: Towards a Global History (2020) and the forthcoming Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime (Routledge, 2022).
Professor Menon was recently awarded the 2021 Falling Walls Foundation Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities.

Summary

This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, it explores the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere.

Product details

• Authors: Dilip M Menon
• Assisted by: Dilip M Menon (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2022
• EAN: 9781032187525
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3218752-5
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Transdisciplinary Souths
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Colonialism & imperialism, Political science & theory, Regional Studies, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Literary theory, Political science and theory, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity