Contemporary social science is a product of the capitalist world-system and Eurocentrism is constitutive of the geoculture of this system characterized by the parochiality of its universalism, assumptions about the superiority of Western civilization and imposition as the sole theory of global progress. The creation of these structures of knowledge, specifically the institutionalization of the social sciences, is a phenomenon that is inextricably linked to the very formation and maturation of Europes capitalist world system or imperialism. There is therefore nothing that is natural, logical, or accidental about the institutionalization of the social sciences. These Europeanized structures of knowledge are imposed ways of producing knowledge of the world. This Eurocentrism of social science has justifiably come under increasingly vigorous scrutiny, especially in the period since 1945 with the formal decolonization of Africa, Asia, and much of the Caribbean. This book forcefully argues that if social science is to make any progress in the twenty-first century, it must overcome its Eurocentric heritage that has distorted social analyses and its capacity to deal with the problems of the contemporary world and embrace other non-Western funds of knowledge production.
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Globalization Theory As A Phase Of Academic Colonialism
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empire
of
all
(See
Map
of
Ancient
European
Colonial
Empires
below).
The
fact
that
England
became
a
dominant
world
power
through
its
rule
of
the
British
Empire,
the
largest
empire
in
the
history
of
the
world,
baffles
us
even
today.
How
did
a
small
island
country
(about
the
size
of
Oregon
in
the
United
States
of
America)
on
the
far
edge
of
the
Eurasian
continent
come
to
rule
over
one-quarter
of
the
world’s
land
mass
and
population?
It
must
have
had
some
unusual
advantages
over
every
other
country.
Certainly,
the
wealth
and
technological
advances
emerging
from
the
Industrial
Revolution
contributed
a
great
deal
to
the
success
of
the
British
Empire,
especially
in
the
nineteenth
century,
when
England
first
industrialized.
However,
the
first
European
colonial
empires,
and
their
increasing
control
of
global
trade,
began
before
the
Industrial
Revolution,
so
the
answer
must
be
more
complex.
When
and
why
did
European
imperial
dominance
take
form?
And
why
didn’t
powerful
Asian
countries
such
as
China
or
India
conquer
Europe
instead
of
the
other
way
around
(See
Figure
1-
European
Colonial
Empires)?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - Introductory: Why Social Science Imperialism?
- Chapter 2 - Social Science, Eurocentrism, Americanization, and Imperialism
- Chapter 3 - Dissecting Globalization as a Scientific Theory
- Chapter 4 - Globalization Theory as Repackaged Social Science Imperialism
- Chapter 5 - Toward De-linking From Globalization by the Oppressed and Exploited
- Epilogue - Which Way for Oppressed and Exploited People?
- Chapter 6 - The Elusive Scientific (Theoretical) Land of Promise
- Chapter 7 - The Road to Scientific Paradise
- Bibliography
- Back cover
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