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Re: different sociology by Louis Proyect 20 February 2002 16:29 UTC |
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At 10:04 AM 2/20/2002, khaled odetalah wrote: > After “ Reorient”, what kind of different sociology we can imagine and >seek to establish ? Should we seek a different version of current >sociology’, or the whole idea of the discipline must be questioned? What >about the idea of building on pre – modern sociologies such as >IbnKhaldoon’s work? > > > Khaled D. Odetalah The late Jim Blaut had a trilogy in mind but only the first 2 installments were completed: "Colonizer's Model of the World" and "8 Eurocentric Historians". The final volume was intended to present an alternative vision of history, based on the viewpoint of the colonized. I suspect that this example would have been a guide for te kind of sociology Khaled is proposing as well. If there is anything that cries out to be written, it is a sort of world history in 2 or 3 volumes that would once and for all put Europe in its proper place. Long before I ran into Jim, I had been thinking along these lines after reading Janet Abu-Lughod's "Before European Hegemony". The material about a Chinese boat sailing to Africa in the 14th century that could have fit all of Columbus's ships on its deck whetted my curiosity. As a model for the kind of scholarship that is needed, you can look at the Oxford History of the British Empire which is a collection of articles by various authors. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
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