Böcker i Beyond the Social Sciences-serien

The concept of concurrences is a blanket term for challenging dominating statements of the past and present. Concurrent stories have varying claims to reality and fiction, as well as different, diverging, and at times competing claims to society, culture, identity, and historical past. Dominant Western narrations about colonial power relationships are challenged by alternative sources such as heritage objects and oral traditions, enabling the voice of minorities or subaltern groups to be heard. Concurrences is about capturing multiple voices and multiple temporalities. As such, it is both a relational and dynamic methodology and a theoretical perspective that undergirds the multiple workings of power, uncovering asymmetrical power relations. Interdisciplinary in nature, this anthology is the outcome of scholarship from the humanities and social sciences with an interest in the multiple temporality of postcolonial issues and engagements in various places across the world.

The social sciences and humanities worldwide are discovering the necessity to self-critically reshape their theorizing: The first critique of social science theorizing calls for ¿globalizing¿, the second, parallel critique, for ¿de-colonizing¿ social thought. In his highly topical book, Michael Kuhn discusses· why and how the ¿globalization¿ of social science theorizing introduces thinking through nation state perspectives as an up-to-date methodological must; · how the ¿de-colonialization¿ of social science theorizing with the critique of Eurocentrism and its thinking through space paves the way for the worldwide implementation of thinking through nation-state views, transforming the social science world into a multiplicity of ¿provincialized¿ theories; · with which odd argumentations the ¿indigenization¿ of thought produces contributions to the ideological armament of the new states in the so-called 3rd world after their transformation into the very society system of the former colonizers;· how these indigenized theories make discourses among de-colonized theories a matter of which ¿provincialized¿ theory manages to rule the worldwide creation of theories;· how the masterminds of globally de-colonized thinking present imperial thought as guiding theories for mankind¿s thinking;· what templates for the turn from anti-capitalist towards nationalistic thinking Historical Materialism has provided, and · what consequences all this has for the social sciences as a voice in political debates about the world.