Anti‐colonial social theory is a set of ideas, assessments and practices of metatheoretical nature that have originated within anti‐colonial thought. As a methodology it theorises and interrogates the ideological within the empirical, the theoretical, and the ‘scientific unconscious’ of fields/disciplines. While criticising late 19th Euro‐American theories as universal set of propositions, it locates its limitations and presents ways to unravel the ideological‐political elements that structure thought and scholarship. It also presents ways through which new global theories may be conceptualised and researched. The paper engages, analyses, compares and assesses various methodological interventions made by anti‐colonial social theorists regarding colonialism, its origin and its continuities; its pasts and presents in distinct times and epochs and in its varied spatial geographies and suggests that these can become tools to define global social theory.

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什么是反殖民全球社会理论？


反殖民社会理论是起源于反殖民思想的一组具有元理论性质的思想、评估和实践。作为一种方法论，它对领域/学科的经验、理论和“科学无意识”内的意识形态进行理论化和质疑。在批评 19 世纪末欧美理论作为普遍命题的同时，它定位了其局限性，并提出了一些方法来阐明构成思想和学术的意识形态政治因素。它还提出了新的全球理论的概念化和研究方法。本文探讨、分析、比较和评估反殖民社会理论家对殖民主义、其起源及其连续性所做的各种方法论干预；它在不同的时代和时代以及不同的空间地理中的过去和现在，并表明这些可以成为定义全球社会理论的工具。