RESEARCH PROFILE

Gurminder K. Bhambra's research addresses how, within sociological understandings of modernity, the experiences and claims of non-European 'others' have been rendered invisible to the dominant narratives and analytical frameworks of sociology. While her research interests are primarily in the area of historical sociology, she is also interested in the intersection of the social sciences with recent work in postcolonial studies. Her current research project is on the possibilities for historical sociology in a postcolonial world. She is convenor of the British Sociological Association's Theory Study Group and co-organized the re-launch conference, 1968: Impact and Implications, held in 2008 in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute of Social Research.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Connected Histories / Connected Sociologies: Rethinking the Global, ESRC, This ESRC funded research network brings together a range of early career scholars, from different disciplinary and geographical areas, with a common interest in the research theme and addresses a specific research problem, that of global interconnections, in light of postcolonial critiques of the Eurocentrism of dominant approaches, Project Start Date: 01/10/2009 Project End Date: 30/06/2011
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Bhambra, Gurminder K, Orrells, D and Roynon, T, (2011) African Athena: New Agendas , Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Dr Gurminder K Bhambra (2010) 'Identity Politics and the Need for a 'Tomorrow'' Economic And Political Weekly (0012-9976)
• Bhambra, G. K. (2010) 'Historical Sociology, International Relations and Connected Histories' Cambridge Review Of International Affairs (0955-7571)
• Dr Gurminder K Bhambra (2010) 'Modernity in Global Context: Postcolonial Studies, Historical Sociology and the Marxist Prolematique' Journal of International Relations and Development (1408-6980)
• Bhambra, Gurminder K (2010) 'Cosmopolitanism and the Postcolonial Condition' in The Ashgate Companion to Cosmopolitanism, Editors: Rovisco, M and Nowicka, M, Aldershot: Ashgate

Further Publications