Introduction: Diversities of Sociological Traditions

Patel, Sujata

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“…https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6785-5981 Notes 1. This article draws on my earlier work (Patel, 2006(Patel, , 2010(Patel, , 2013(Patel, , 2015(Patel, , 2017(Patel, , 2019. 2.…”

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Sociology’s encounter with the decolonial: The problematique of indigenous vs that of coloniality, extraversion and colonial modernity

Patel

2020

Current Sociology

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How did the process of decolonization reframe the social sciences? This article maps the interventions made by theorists of and from the ex-colonial countries in reconceptualizing sociology both as practice and as an episteme. It argues that there are geographically varied and intellectually diverse decolonial approaches being formulated using sociological theory to critique the universals propounded by the traditions of western sociology/social sciences; that these diverse knowledges are connected through colonial and global circuits and that these create knowledge geographies; that collectively these diverse intellectual positions argue that sociology/social sciences are constituted in and within the politics of ‘difference’ organized within colonial, nationalist and global geopolitics; that this ‘difference’ is being reproduced in everyday knowledge practices and is being structured through the political economy of knowledge; and that the destabilization of this power structure and democratization of this knowledge is possible only when there is a fulsome interrogation of this political economy, and its everyday practices of knowledge production within universities and research institutes. It argues that this critique needs to be buffered by the constitution of alternate networks of circulation of this knowledge.

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“…https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6785-5981 Notes 1. This article draws on my earlier work (Patel, 2006(Patel, , 2010(Patel, , 2013(Patel, , 2015(Patel, , 2017(Patel, , 2019. 2.…”

Section: Sujata Patelmentioning

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Sociology’s encounter with the decolonial: The problematique of indigenous vs that of coloniality, extraversion and colonial modernity

Patel

2020

Current Sociology

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“…She has been active in the ISA for a considerable time, urging scholars to see the different traditions in sociology. Patel clearly has been mobilising within sociology institutionally, through international bodies, whilst trying to orient the discipline in different directions (2010, 2011). Importantly she points to other histories of scholarship informing the global routes of sociology outside North America and Europe.…”

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Puzzlement of a déjà vu: Illuminaries of the global South

Puwar

2019

The Sociological Review

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The act of decentring established Euro-North American sites and flows of knowledge as longstanding geopolitical anchors of epistemological authority presents déjà vu scenarios, involved in centre-staging processes. The very position of being a messenger from the ‘North’ of knowledge and theory from the ‘South’ can reproduce the same patterns the undertaking seeks to unsettle. The context in which academic performativity is shaped is integral to both the making and taking of space in intellectual circuits of production and circulation. This article considers how centre-staging in academia performatively involves particular features. As a case in point, the focus is on the centre-staging of Boaventura de Sousa Santos (epistemology of the South) and Raewyn Connell (Southern Theory), who have become globally known for insisting on bringing knowledge from the South to the North. The wider ecology of the global circuits of academia, as well as their own performative dramaturgy, constitutes points of observation. A self-enterprising ownership of big global conceptual programmes places them high in the decentring of knowledge. There is a leap frogging over former stocks of published academic knowledge, as well as a centre-staging of knowledge projects, whereby it is they who become the flag bearers of this enterprise. Within this process it is important to recognise who is illuminated. Bibliographic tracks become traced over, in the very ways in which fields are mapped in order to produce a point of intervention.

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“…In the case of the social sciences, the issue of ideological control becomes especially relevant, and governments usually try to make extensive use of these disciplines for their own purposes of ideological legitimation (Galaty and Watkinson, 2004). In general, political authoritarianism has been found to be a negative factor in the development of the social sciences (Patel, 2009). As SMOS are part of the social sciences, it can therefore be predicted that:…”

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Management research worldwide: extent and determinants (1996-2010)

Gantman

2015

International Journal of Organizational Analysis

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Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by emeraldsrm:320271 [] For AuthorsIf you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -This paper aims to explore the extent and determinants of the production of scientific management and organization studies (SMOS). Design/methodology/approach -This paper is a quantitative analysis of bibliometric data. Findings -The results of a comparison of number of authorships in a broad number of journals reveal that the share of the US production in the field is declining. However, the visibility of authors from developing countries remains at an extremely low level. Regarding the analysis of the determinants of academic production in the discipline, the estimated count data models highlight the relevance of economic, linguistic and political factors, which have a positive and highly significant effect on the countries' published research output. Practical implications -The concluding section discusses how the quantity and quality of SMOS in developed countries could be improved. Originality/value -The paper presents new evidence about the unequal distribution of the countries' production in SMOS as well as on its determining factors.

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Introduction: Diversities of Sociological Traditions

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

Sociology’s encounter with the decolonial: The problematique of indigenous vs that of coloniality, extraversion and colonial modernity

Sociology’s encounter with the decolonial: The problematique of indigenous vs that of coloniality, extraversion and colonial modernity

Puzzlement of a déjà vu: Illuminaries of the global South

Management research worldwide: extent and determinants (1996-2010)

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