Patel Sujata
Independent Researcher, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Front Sociol. 2023 Mar 30;8:1143776. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1143776. eCollection 2023.
From the late 1980s onward, global social theory has been introduced to a new perspective variously called indigeneity, endogeneity, Orientalism, Eurocentrism, post-colonial, decolonial, and Southern sociology/social sciences. This study argues that the above-mentioned trends should be collectively termed anti-colonial social theory as all of these explore the relationship between colonialism and knowledge production. The study divides the growth of anti-colonial social theory in terms of two phases and relates it to changing geopolitics of the 20th century. It argues that these distinct trends manifest a united stance in its ontological-epistemic articulation. It also argues that anti-colonial social theory can play a relevant role in a knowledge system divided through colonial/imperial relationships, given its theorization on the same.
从20世纪80年代末开始，全球社会理论被引入了一个新的视角，这个视角有各种不同的称呼，如本土性、内生性、东方主义、欧洲中心主义、后殖民、去殖民以及南方社会学/社会科学。本研究认为，上述这些趋势应统称为反殖民社会理论，因为所有这些都探讨了殖民主义与知识生产之间的关系。该研究将反殖民社会理论的发展分为两个阶段，并将其与20世纪不断变化的地缘政治联系起来。它认为，这些不同的趋势在其本体论-认识论的阐述中表现出一种统一的立场。它还认为，鉴于反殖民社会理论对通过殖民/帝国关系划分的知识体系进行了理论化，它可以在这样一个知识体系中发挥相关作用。
