Abstract

How the failure to take into account colonial and imperial histories creates inadequate social science concepts.


Bio

Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick and Guest Professor of Sociology and History at Concurrences Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden, Gurminder K. Bhambra is Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in Social Sciences at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, between November 7 and 11 2016. For the academic year, 2014-15, she was Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Princeton University and Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She has held Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the University of Sussex funded by the ESRC and the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex and has also been a Research Associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Centre at Mount Holyoke College, USA, where she was Visiting Assistant Professor in Critical Social Thought.