Post-Western revolution in sociology : from China to Europe

Laurence Roulleau-Berger (1)

1 TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique

"Within a movement towards the circulation and globalisation of knowledge, new centres and new peripheries form and new hierarchies appear - more or less discretely - producing competition and rivalry in the development of “new” knowledge. Centres of gravity in social sciences have been displaced towards Asia, especially China. We have entered a period of de-westernization of knowledge and co-production of transnational knowledge. This is a scientific revolution in the social sciences which imposes detours, displacements, reversals. It means a turning point in the history of social sciences. From the Chinese experience in sociology the author is opening a Post-Western Space where after Post-Colonial Studies, she is speaking about the emergence of a Post-Western Sociology."

Mots clés: China; globalisation; global studies; post-western sociologies; Sociology; transnational knowledge

Domaines: Sociologie

Laurence Roulleau-Berger. Post-Western revolution in sociology : from China to Europe. Brill, 2016, Post-Western social sciences and global knowledge, 978-90-04-30972-2. ⟨halshs-01327716⟩