Gurminder K. Bhambra

The idea of modern capitalism as a distinct socioeconomic formation is common to many different sociological approaches, especially those inspired by the work of Marx and Weber. This also holds true for critical theory, which connects its normative arguments about human emancipation and possibilities to what Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi (2018)...

Gurminder K. Bhambra is a leading figure in the development of postcolonial sociology. She addresses sociology’s parochialism by showing how the experience and contributions of the colonized have been rubbed out of history. Her recent book, Connected Sociologies (2014) elaborates the arguments presented here – critical of Eurocentric approaches to globalization that hide the centrality of non-European “others”...