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* NEW DATE : Please note this is a change to the advertised date and will now take place on Thursday 3 March. *
Professor Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Sussex
Hosted by Dr Martin Farr, Co-Chair of the Public Lectures Committee
British Academy Lecture
The social sciences are implicated in the reproduction of the very structures of inequality that are, ostensibly, their objects of concern. This is, in part, a consequence of their failure to acknowledge the ‘connected histories’ from which they abstract one of their primary units of analysis: the modern nation-state. There is a need to account for colonial histories and to devise a framework for a reparatory social science – one that is oriented to global justice as a reconstructive project of the present.
Biography
Gurminder K Bhambra FBA is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex. Among her publications are Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination, which won the 2008 BSA's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for best first book, Connected Sociologies and most recently in 2021 the co-authored book Colonialism and Modern Social Theory. Her current projects focus on epistemological justice and reparations and on the political economy of race and colonialism.
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* NEW DATE : Please note this is a change to the advertised date and will now take place on Thursday 3 March. *
Professor Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Sussex
Hosted by Dr Martin Farr, Co-Chair of the Public Lectures Committee
British Academy Lecture
The social sciences are implicated in the reproduction of the very structures of inequality that are, ostensibly, their objects of concern. This is, in part, a consequence of their failure to acknowledge the ‘connected histories’ from which they abstract one of their primary units of analysis: the modern nation-state. There is a need to account for colonial histories and to devise a framework for a reparatory social science – one that is oriented to global justice as a reconstructive project of the present.
Biography
Gurminder K Bhambra FBA is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex. Among her publications are Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination, which won the 2008 BSA's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for best first book, Connected Sociologies and most recently in 2021 the co-authored book Colonialism and Modern Social Theory. Her current projects focus on epistemological justice and reparations and on the political economy of race and colonialism.
Live Q&A:
The lecture will be followed by a live Q&A with the speakers. You can submit a question during the event using YouTube Live Chat, via Twitter @InsightsNCL or by sending an email to public.lectures@ncl.ac.uk.
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