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For a reparatory social science

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ID7105215
AuthorsG K Bhambra (0000-0003-3658-1575, University of Sussex, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume1
Issue1
Pages8-20
Publication date2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Social Challenges Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2752-3349 • E-ISSN: 2752-3349
PublisherBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/hieo9991
OpenAlexW4282931475
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited33

The continuing coronavirus pandemic has combined with other global crises to highlight some of the fundamental challenges of inequality that currently face us. They are global both in their current configuration and their historical constitution . Similarly, any solutions to the challenges represented will be global. The continuing relevance of the social sciences will rest on their ability adequately to conceptualise the global processes involved. It is only by acknowledging the significance of the ‘ colonial global’ that it will be possible to understand and address the necessarily postcolonial present that is the context for issues of inequality in the present. This article argues for the need to consider our colonial past as the basis for thinking about contemporary configurations of the global. This is followed by an address of the implications of these arguments for how we understand citizenship and belonging in the present. What is needed is a ‘reparatory social science’ committed to undoing the inadequacies that have become lodged in our disciplines and working towards a project of repair and transformation for a world that works for all of us

Colonialism · Constitution · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Inequality · Political science · Relevance (law · Social science · Sociology · Undoing · African cultural and philosophical studies · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Employment and Welfare Studies · History · Law · Psychology

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Unique citing works21
Citations per year5,25
Citation span2022 - 2026 (5)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 20

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