Misunderstanding Modernity: The Social Scientific Neglect of Colonialism
Channel: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 2017-10-27

Modernity is a central concept within the social sciences. It demarcates the world in terms of time and space, separating out the modern from the non-modern, and points to associated disciplinary orderings.

Professor Gurminder K Bhambra addresses our commonly held misunderstandings of modernity and discuss how an adequate address of colonialism would require us to rethink our standard assumptions of the modern world and disciplinary responses to it.