Review Essay: New Work on Anne Brontë

2020 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 316-320
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Logan
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
New Work ◽  
Anne Bronte

On decolonial revisions of modern social theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 704-719
Author(s):  
Su-ming Khoo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
New Work ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Civic Spaces ◽  
Critical Project

This review essay discusses decolonial and revisionist approaches to the sociological canon, centring on a major new work, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory by Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood (2021). The challenge to ‘classical’ social theory and the demand to reconstitute the theory curriculum come in the context of increased visibility for wider decolonial agendas, linked to ‘fallist’ protests in South Africa, Black Lives Matter and allied antiracist organizing, and calls to decolonize public and civic spaces and institutions such as universities, effect museum restitution, and colonial reparations. The review identifies continuities and complementarities with Connell’s critique of the sociological canon, though Colonialism and Modern Social Theory takes a different tack from Connell’s Southern Theory (2009). Bhambra and Holmwood’s opening of sociology’s canon converges with Connell’s recent work to align a critical project of global and decolonial public sociology with a pragmatic programme for doing academic work differently.

„New Work“: Arbeitsfähigkeit neu definiert?

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
M. Ben Larbi
Keyword(s):  
New Work

Review Essay: History and Postmodernism

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Lord ◽  
James Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay

Roshdi Rashed

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 279-295
Author(s):  
Mohammed Aref
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Great Book ◽  
Mathematical Language ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
Elementary Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

This review essay introduces the work of the Egyptian scientific historian and philosopher Roshdi Rashed, a pioneer in the field of the history of Arab sciences. The article is based on the five volumes he originally wrote in French and later translated into Arabic, which were published by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies and which are now widely acclaimed as a unique effort to unveil the achievements of Arab scientists. The essay reviews this major work, which seems, like Plato’s Republic to have “No Entry for Those Who Have No Knowledge of Mathematics” written on its gate. If you force your way in, even with elementary knowledge of computation, a philosophy will unfold before your eyes, described by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei as “written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes—I mean the universe—but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.” The essay is a journey through this labyrinth where the history of world mathematics got lost and was chronicled by Rashed in five volumes translated from the French into Arabic. It took him fifteen years to complete.

Review Essay: “Straight Histories of Queer Music”

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay
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