Southern Theory: Social Science And The Global Dynamics Of Knowledge

Acknowledgments.

Part I: Northern Theory.

Empire and the creation of a social science.

Modern general theory and its hidden assumptions.

Imagining globalisation.

Part II: Looking South.

The discovery of Australia.

Part III: Southern Theory.

Indigenous knowledge and African Renaissance.

Islam and Western dominance.

Dependency, autonomy and culture.

Power, violence and the pain of colonialism.

Part IV: Antipodean Reflections.

The silence of the land.

Social science on a world scale.

References.

Index