Sujata Patel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3587337 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sujata Patel |
| PRENOMES | Sujata |
| SOBRENOME | Patel |
| ASSINATURA | PATEL S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Hyderabad |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6785-5981 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 141 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Anticolonialism and Social Thought
Not only did the anticolonial movements of the past two centuries help bring down the global order of colonial empires, they also produced novel, innovative and vital social thought. Anticolonialism has been largely ignored in conventional Europe-centered social thought and theory, but this book shows how our sociological imagination can be expanded by taking challenges to colonialism and imperialism seriously. Amidst their struggles to change th…
Grotesque Bodies and Disability
The decoloniality perspective and the social sciences. In conversation with Leon Moosavi
Introduction
The papers of this special issue, “Intellectual Decolonization: Contexts, Critiques and Alternatives”, deal with the broad issue of intellectual decolonization or the decolonization of knowledge in the social sciences. Together, the six articles provide contextual, critical and alternative views of what intellectual decolonization means and entails
What Is Anti‐Colonial Global Social Theory
Anti‐colonial social theory is a set of ideas, assessments and practices of metatheoretical nature that have originated within anti‐colonial thought. As a methodology it theorises and interrogates the ideological within the empirical, the theoretical, and the ‘scientific unconscious’ of fields/disciplines. While criticising late 19th Euro‐American theories as universal set of propositions, it locates its limitations and presents ways to unravel t…
Anti-colonial thought and global social theory
From the late 1980s onward, global social theory has been introduced to a new perspective variously called indigeneity, endogeneity, Orientalism, Eurocentrism, post-colonial, decolonial, and Southern sociology/social sciences. This study argues that the above-mentioned trends should be collectively termed anti-colonial social theory as all of these explore the relationship between colonialism and knowledge production. The study divides the growth…
O programa de Sociologia e-PG Pathshala
Este artigo avalia criticamente o currículo de sociologia preparado para uma plataforma de e-learning, entre 2012-2015, chamada e-PG Pathshala, que visava oferecer uma nova perspectiva a estudantes de pós-graduação em sociologia na Índia. Este artigo, escrito por autor e autora associados a este projeto, examina seus sucessos e fracassos em deslocar as limitadas perspectivas eurocêntricas e nacionalistas do currículo da Sociologia na Índia e em s…
Colonialism and Its Knowledges
Reflections of a Monographs editor
Colonialism and Its Knowledges
The nationalist-indigenous and colonial modernity
This paper analyzes the work of two Indian sociologists who defined the contours of sociology in India in the immediate post-independence decades, M. N. Srinivas and A. R. Desai. It argues that their scholarship can be linked to sociology’s legacy as anthropology in India and its embeddedness in the episteme of colonial modernity. It contends that Srinivas’s methodology, the field view, attempted to make a break with earlier methods, such as book…
Nationalist Ideas and the Colonial Episteme
The paper traces the growth of sociology in India through three phases. The first phase, it argues, begins in the 30s with the slow consolidation of the discipline. In this phase, sociology was associated with the Indological perspective and the social was perceived in culturist terms and analysed through the prism of the past, in and through Sanskrit texts. In the second phase, which begins in the early 60s, when University education expands in …
Sociology's encounter with the decolonial
How did the process of decolonization reframe the social sciences? This article maps the interventions made by theorists of and from the ex-colonial countries in reconceptualizing sociology both as practice and as an episteme. It argues that there are geographically varied and intellectually diverse decolonial approaches being formulated using sociological theory to critique the universals propounded by the traditions of western sociology/social …
Decolonising the University , Edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nisancioglu Reviewed by Sujata Patel
India's Contemporary Urban Conundrum
D esai, A kshay R amanlal (1915–94)
A. R. Desai was an Indian Marxist and a sociologist. His life work was to interpret Marxism in context with Indian conditions. Desai published more than fourteen books and edited a twenty‐four‐volume source book on the labor movement in India. His publications can be divided into two parts: those that analyzed the relationship between classes and the growth of Indian nationalism and those that analyzed working‐class and peasant struggles and move…
India's Contemporary Urban Conundrum
Sociology through the ‘South’ prism 1
This chapter maps and assesses interventions made by scholars on the issues discussed by Raewyn Connell in her book Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science. It explores the three pathways through which the debate on Southern theory has developed since its publication in 2007: the decolonial perspective, the postcolonial position and the indigenous/endogenous and autonomous position. The chapter argues that it is possib…
Rethinking Urban Studies Today
The article engages with the literature that has emerged since the 1990s in urban studies in India and in this context, discusses the nature of India’s urban modernity. It suggests that scholars in India participate and engage with the global discussion on urban studies by removing themselves from the epistemic confusions of colonial episteme and of methodological nationalism that has bound sociology in India. It suggests that contemporary proces…
Colonial Modernity and Methodological Nationalism
This article traces traditions of sociological thinking in India and suggests that in order to write the disciplines’ history, it is important to identify the episteme that governs these traditions. It suggests that there are two broad epistemes that have defined sociology as a discipline in India—colonial modernity and methodological nationalism—and it argues that they organise theories, perspectives, methodologies and methods, teaching and rese…
Feminist challenges to sociology in India
This article suggests that paradigmatic changes took place in sociological traditions in India from the late 1970s to the 1990s in a manner similar to the catalytic changes occurring in the same period in different sociological traditions across the globe. In the case of sociology in India, it was feminist questionings of the systems of family, caste, religion and other tradition-modern dualities that introduced key re-conceptualisations. The art…
Beyond divisions and towards internationalism
Gazing Backward or Looking Forward
Afterword
This Afterword maps out the methodological constituents that organize global sociology. It suggests that the starting point for doing global sociology is to deconstruct the inherent Eurocentrism which is there in the discipline's cognitive frames. Also, it suggests that Eurocentrism is not merely represented in sociological theories and methods but is also enmeshed in practices and sites that administer and govern sociological knowledge, such as …
Contemporary India and South Africa
1. Legacies and New Identities: Contemporary India and South Africa Compared Sujata Patel and Tina Uys Part I. Migration, Indenture and Identities: Being Indian in South Africa 2. Indenture and Indianness in South Africa: 1860-1913 Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed 3. Tracing the Journey of South African Indian Women from 1860 Mariam Seedat-Khan 4. In a Faraway Sugarcane Field: Imagining Indentured Labour in Colonial India V. Geetha 5. 'Made in India…
Beyond Binaries
This article examines the evolution of sociological traditions within India in the context of colonization and assesses their continuation in its contemporary practices. It evaluates two new perspectives, indigenization and postcolonial studies, that have emerged to reorganize these traditions. The author argues that the divisions of knowledge and power represented within the disciplines of sociology and anthropology structure the ways in which d…
Sociology's encounter with the decolonial
How did the process of decolonization reframe the social sciences? This article maps the interventions made by theorists of and from the ex-colonial countries in reconceptualizing sociology both as practice and as an episteme. It argues that there are geographically varied and intellectually diverse decolonial approaches being formulated using sociological theory to critique the universals propounded by the traditions of western sociology/social …
Colonial Modernity and Methodological Nationalism
This article traces traditions of sociological thinking in India and suggests that in order to write the disciplines’ history, it is important to identify the episteme that governs these traditions. It suggests that there are two broad epistemes that have defined sociology as a discipline in India—colonial modernity and methodological nationalism—and it argues that they organise theories, perspectives, methodologies and methods, teaching and rese…
Afterword
This Afterword maps out the methodological constituents that organize global sociology. It suggests that the starting point for doing global sociology is to deconstruct the inherent Eurocentrism which is there in the discipline's cognitive frames. Also, it suggests that Eurocentrism is not merely represented in sociological theories and methods but is also enmeshed in practices and sites that administer and govern sociological knowledge, such as …
The Profession and its Association
The Indian Sociological Society was founded in 1951, and in 1967 merged with the All India Sociological Congress. Its development has been very much affected by the cleavage between regional (local-language)and national (English-language) universities, and the tendency for intellectual leaders to make particular departmental schools dominant. After the Delhi World Congress the organization was reconstructed, and became permanently based in Delhi;…
Anti-colonial thought and global social theory
From the late 1980s onward, global social theory has been introduced to a new perspective variously called indigeneity, endogeneity, Orientalism, Eurocentrism, post-colonial, decolonial, and Southern sociology/social sciences. This study argues that the above-mentioned trends should be collectively termed anti-colonial social theory as all of these explore the relationship between colonialism and knowledge production. The study divides the growth…
Sociology in India
The nostalgia for the village
1998). The nostalgia for the village: M. N. Srinivas and the making of Indian social anthropology. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 49-61
Feminist challenges to sociology in India
This article suggests that paradigmatic changes took place in sociological traditions in India from the late 1970s to the 1990s in a manner similar to the catalytic changes occurring in the same period in different sociological traditions across the globe. In the case of sociology in India, it was feminist questionings of the systems of family, caste, religion and other tradition-modern dualities that introduced key re-conceptualisations. The art…
The nationalist-indigenous and colonial modernity
This paper analyzes the work of two Indian sociologists who defined the contours of sociology in India in the immediate post-independence decades, M. N. Srinivas and A. R. Desai. It argues that their scholarship can be linked to sociology’s legacy as anthropology in India and its embeddedness in the episteme of colonial modernity. It contends that Srinivas’s methodology, the field view, attempted to make a break with earlier methods, such as book…
Nationalist Ideas and the Colonial Episteme
The paper traces the growth of sociology in India through three phases. The first phase, it argues, begins in the 30s with the slow consolidation of the discipline. In this phase, sociology was associated with the Indological perspective and the social was perceived in culturist terms and analysed through the prism of the past, in and through Sanskrit texts. In the second phase, which begins in the early 60s, when University education expands in …
Rethinking Urban Studies Today
The article engages with the literature that has emerged since the 1990s in urban studies in India and in this context, discusses the nature of India’s urban modernity. It suggests that scholars in India participate and engage with the global discussion on urban studies by removing themselves from the epistemic confusions of colonial episteme and of methodological nationalism that has bound sociology in India. It suggests that contemporary proces…
Modernity
Introduction
The papers of this special issue, “Intellectual Decolonization: Contexts, Critiques and Alternatives”, deal with the broad issue of intellectual decolonization or the decolonization of knowledge in the social sciences. Together, the six articles provide contextual, critical and alternative views of what intellectual decolonization means and entails
What Is Anti‐Colonial Global Social Theory
Anti‐colonial social theory is a set of ideas, assessments and practices of metatheoretical nature that have originated within anti‐colonial thought. As a methodology it theorises and interrogates the ideological within the empirical, the theoretical, and the ‘scientific unconscious’ of fields/disciplines. While criticising late 19th Euro‐American theories as universal set of propositions, it locates its limitations and presents ways to unravel t…
The popularity of the Shiv sena; Urbanisation and its consequences
Whither South Asian Sociology
The nostalgia for the village
1998). The nostalgia for the village: M. N. Srinivas and the making of Indian social anthropology. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 49-61
Modernity
The Profession and its Association
The Indian Sociological Society was founded in 1951, and in 1967 merged with the All India Sociological Congress. Its development has been very much affected by the cleavage between regional (local-language)and national (English-language) universities, and the tendency for intellectual leaders to make particular departmental schools dominant. After the Delhi World Congress the organization was reconstructed, and became permanently based in Delhi;…
World Cities beyond the West
This study was the first systematically to cover those cities beyond the core that most clearly can be considered world cities: Bangkok, Cairo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, and Singapore. Fourteen leading authorities from diverse backgrounds bring their expertise to bear on these cities across four continents and consider the major regional and global roles they play in economic, polit…
Beyond Binaries
This article examines the evolution of sociological traditions within India in the context of colonization and assesses their continuation in its contemporary practices. It evaluates two new perspectives, indigenization and postcolonial studies, that have emerged to reorganize these traditions. The author argues that the divisions of knowledge and power represented within the disciplines of sociology and anthropology structure the ways in which d…
Doing urban studies in India
This paper maps aut the contours of the newly emerging field of Urban Studies in India, arguing for a need to evolve an interdisciplinary historical perspective that can explore the uneven and transitional character of the urban process structured by colonial capitalism. It debates with the European and North American perspectives, discusses the urban experience in India in terms of five themes and argues that these can help to constitute anew th…
At Crossroads
The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions
This volume actively engages with the many traditions of sociology in the world. 29 chapters from prominent international contributors discuss, challenge & re-conceptualize the global discipline of sociology, evaluating the diversities within & between sociological traditions of many regions & nation-states
Sociology in India
Contemporary India and South Africa
1. Legacies and New Identities: Contemporary India and South Africa Compared Sujata Patel and Tina Uys Part I. Migration, Indenture and Identities: Being Indian in South Africa 2. Indenture and Indianness in South Africa: 1860-1913 Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed 3. Tracing the Journey of South African Indian Women from 1860 Mariam Seedat-Khan 4. In a Faraway Sugarcane Field: Imagining Indentured Labour in Colonial India V. Geetha 5. 'Made in India…
Orientalist-Eurocentric Framing of Sociology in India
This chapter shifts contemporary debates on Eurocentrism from its focus on European social theory to an analysis of its moorings in non-Atlantic sociological traditions and especially those within ex-colonial countries. It discusses the sociological/anthropological visions of two first generation sociologists/anthropologists from India, G. S. Ghurye (1893–1983) and D. P. Mukerji (1894–1961), within Orientalist-Eurocentric positions and explores h…
Gazing Backward or Looking Forward
Afterword
This Afterword maps out the methodological constituents that organize global sociology. It suggests that the starting point for doing global sociology is to deconstruct the inherent Eurocentrism which is there in the discipline's cognitive frames. Also, it suggests that Eurocentrism is not merely represented in sociological theories and methods but is also enmeshed in practices and sites that administer and govern sociological knowledge, such as …
Beyond divisions and towards internationalism
Feminist challenges to sociology in India
This article suggests that paradigmatic changes took place in sociological traditions in India from the late 1970s to the 1990s in a manner similar to the catalytic changes occurring in the same period in different sociological traditions across the globe. In the case of sociology in India, it was feminist questionings of the systems of family, caste, religion and other tradition-modern dualities that introduced key re-conceptualisations. The art…
Colonial Modernity and Methodological Nationalism
This article traces traditions of sociological thinking in India and suggests that in order to write the disciplines’ history, it is important to identify the episteme that governs these traditions. It suggests that there are two broad epistemes that have defined sociology as a discipline in India—colonial modernity and methodological nationalism—and it argues that they organise theories, perspectives, methodologies and methods, teaching and rese…
India's Contemporary Urban Conundrum
D esai, A kshay R amanlal (1915–94)
A. R. Desai was an Indian Marxist and a sociologist. His life work was to interpret Marxism in context with Indian conditions. Desai published more than fourteen books and edited a twenty‐four‐volume source book on the labor movement in India. His publications can be divided into two parts: those that analyzed the relationship between classes and the growth of Indian nationalism and those that analyzed working‐class and peasant struggles and move…
India's Contemporary Urban Conundrum
Sociology through the ‘South’ prism 1
This chapter maps and assesses interventions made by scholars on the issues discussed by Raewyn Connell in her book Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science. It explores the three pathways through which the debate on Southern theory has developed since its publication in 2007: the decolonial perspective, the postcolonial position and the indigenous/endogenous and autonomous position. The chapter argues that it is possib…
Rethinking Urban Studies Today
The article engages with the literature that has emerged since the 1990s in urban studies in India and in this context, discusses the nature of India’s urban modernity. It suggests that scholars in India participate and engage with the global discussion on urban studies by removing themselves from the epistemic confusions of colonial episteme and of methodological nationalism that has bound sociology in India. It suggests that contemporary proces…
Decolonising the University , Edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nisancioglu Reviewed by Sujata Patel
Colonialism and Its Knowledges
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