Event overview
George Steinmetz, author of Sociology and Empire, will be discussing his current research into the refounding of British and French sociology in colonial research practices.
His talk will address the important role played by colonial research in the renascent academic discipline of sociology after 1945, especially in Britain and France, where colonies were key objects, terrains of investigation, and employment sites for sociologists.
This lecture will explore the extent to which colonial developmentalism created a demand for new forms of social scientific expertise, including sociology, resulting in novel forms of applied sociology focused on urbanization, detribalization, labour migration, industrialization, poverty, and resettlement.
This event will aim to establish the existence of networks of colonial sociologists, chart their size and composition, and reconstruct these colonial sociologists’ relations to neighbouring academic disciplines, especially anthropology, and to the metrocentric majority within their own discipline.
In doing so it will unpack the theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions made by colonial sociologists that shaped the subsequent discipline in unacknowledged ways and foreshadowed recent work on race relations, transnational and global history, and “southern” and postcolonial theory.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 2 Mar 2016 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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