Social Thought from the Global South

A Comparative-Historical View from Xi’s China and Modi’s India

Bibliographic Data

ID21836331
AuthorsRalph Schroeder (0000-0002-4229-1585, Oxford Internet Institute , Oxford OX1 3JS , UK, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume17
Issue3
Pages269-289
Publication date2023-12-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Global Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1940-0004 • E-ISSN: 2194-6566
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ngs-2022-0017
OpenAlexW4296596745
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited39

It has been argued that social thought is Western-centric or Euro-centric. This essay argues that there are alternatives that have been put forward from the Global South, though they have been overlooked. Examples can be found in the different schools of thought about development that have emerged in India and China. Non-Western social thought in these two countries borrows from – but also departs from – that in the West, and includes versions of socialism, liberalism, and conservatism. These schools of thought also blur, as do Western ones, academic theories, political ideologies, and models of societal development. This essay will briefly present these schools, but the aim is not to detail them but rather to spell out their implications. These implications include that they do not map easily onto the Western left-right divide. Further, these schools illuminate how forms of inclusion and exclusion have been shaped by the state’s responses to distinctive pressures “from below.” In the conclusion, the essay discusses how these schools offer models for other parts of the Global South and hold a mirror up to the West

China · Communism · Conservatism · Epistemology · Ideology · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Socialism · Sociology · Spell · Western thought · Anthropology · International Development and Aid · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion, Society, and Development

Tools

Open DOIOpen Access