Social Science of the Citizen Society - Volume 1 - Critique of the Globalization and Decolonization of the Social Sciences (Kuhn Michael)(Paperback / softback)

The social sciences and humanities worldwide are discovering the necessity to self-critically reshape their theorizing: The first critique of social science theorizing calls for 'globalizing', the second, parallel critique, for 'de-colonizing' social thought. In his highly topical book, Michael Kuhn discusses why and how the 'globalization' of social science theorizing introduces thinking through nation state perspectives as an up-to-date methodological must; how the 'de-colonialization' of social science theorizing with the critique of Eurocentrism and its thinking through space paves the way for the worldwide implementation of thinking through nation-state views, transforming the social science world into a multiplicity of 'provincialized' theories; with which odd argumentations the 'indigenization' of thought produces contributions to the ideological armament of the new states in
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