Monograph
- 2007 Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke. Read a sample chapter here.
Paperback edition published in 2009; Arabic translation to be published in 2012; Japanese translation to be published in 2012.
Winner of the 2008 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. For more information about the BSA prize, see here. Shortlisted for the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and the Social Sciences in 2008, and again in 2010.
Review of Rethinking Modernity (German) 
Review on Postcolonial Networks
Edited Volumes
Journal Articles
- 2011 'Historical Sociology, Modernity, and Postcolonial Critique,' American Historical Review 116 (3): 653-662
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/ahr.116.3.653
- 2011 'Tocqueville, Beaumont and the Silences in Histories of the United States: An Interdisciplinary Endeavour across Literature and Sociology,’ Journal of Historical Sociology 24 (1): 116-131 (co-written with Dr V Margree)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6443.2011.01392.x/abstract
- 2010 'Identity Politics and the Need for a “Tomorrow”,’ Economic and Political Weekly 45 (15): 59-66 (co-written with Dr V Margree)
http://epw.in/epw/uploads/articles/14641.pdf
- 2010, 'Historical Sociology, International Relations and Connected Histories', Cambridge Review of International Affairs 23 (1): 127-43
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a919194850
- 2009 'Introduction: Global Social Inquiry - The Challenge of Listening', Sociological Research Online 14 (4) http://www.socresonline.org.uk/14/4/11.html
- 2007 ‘Sociology and Postcolonialism: Another “Missing” Revolution?’, Sociology Special Issue: ‘Sociology and its Public Face(s)’ 41(5): 871-84.
The online version of this article can be found at: http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/5/871
- 2006 ‘Beginnings: Edward W. Said and Questions of Nationalism’, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 8(1): pp1-8. I am also guest editor of this special issue in memory of Edward W. Said.
[pdf download]
Book Chapters
- 2011 ‘Cosmopolitanism and the Postcolonial Condition' in Maria Rovisco and Magdalena Nowicka (eds) The Ashgate Companion to Cosmopolitanism. Aldershot: Ashgate.
- 2010 ‘Sociology after Postcolonialism: Provincialized Cosmopolitanism and Connected Sociologies,’ M Boatcă, S Costa, E Gutiérrez-Rodríguez (eds) Decolonising European Sociology: Trans-disciplinary Approaches, pp33-47. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2010
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Raewyn Connell in Current Sociology, May 2011: "Gurminder Bhambra’s following essay “Sociology after Postcolonialism” is one of the two high points of the collection. Bhambra’s clear and thoughtful text shows why a postcolonial critique is needed within mainstream sociology, and why a doctrine of “multiple modernities” will not do the job. She takes apart the agenda of “cosmopolitanism” advanced by Ulrich Beck and others, showing this does not escape Eurocentrism. Finally, she looks at the idea of multi-centered global sociology, offering criticisms of Burawoy’s and Connell’s versions of this, and briefly showing the depth of the reconstruction sociology has to undergo—including deep rethinking of its basic categories and its history. This chapter would be an excellent text for undergraduate as well as graduate courses on sociological theory."
- 2009 ‘Postcolonial Europe: Or, Understanding Europe in Times of the Postcolonial’ in Chris Rumford (ed.) Sage Handbook of European Studies, chapter 5. Sage: London
- 2007 ‘Multiple Modernities or Global Interconnections: Understanding the Global Post the Colonial’ in Peter Wagner and Nathalie Karagiannis (eds) Varieties of World-Making: Beyond Globalization, pp59-73. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool
[pdf download final draft version]
- 2006 ‘Culture, Identity, and Rights: Challenging Contemporary Discourses of Belonging’ in Nira Yuval-Davis, Kalpana Kannabiran, and Ulrike M. Vieten (eds), The Situated Politics of Belonging, pp32-41. ISA/ Sage Publications: London
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Reviews
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- 2009 'Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism (Duke University Press, 2008),' Sociological Review 57 (3): 538-40
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122574343/abstract
- 2008 'George Steinmetz, The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa (University of Chicago: 2007),' Canadian Journal of Sociology 33 (3): 715-18
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/4168/3411
- 2008 ‘Alan Sica and Stephen Turner (eds), The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties (University of Chicago Press: 2005)’, Sociology 42 (4): 784-6
http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/42/4/784
- 2007 ‘Context Matters: Timothy Brennan, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right (Columbia University Press: 2006)’, New Formations Zidane’s Melancholy 62: pp113-6
- 2006 ‘Zine Magubane, Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa (University of Chicago Press: 2004)’, British Journal of Sociology 57 (3): pp538-9
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118586139/HTMLSTART
- 2003 ‘India, Europe, and Postcolonialism: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton UP: 2000) and Gyan Prakash, Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (Princeton UP: 1999)’, the global site: first review 1, http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk
- 2003 ‘The Contestability of Culture: Seyla Benhabib, The Claims of Culture (Princeton UP: 2002); Georg Cavallar, The Rights of Strangers (Ashgate, Hampshire: 2002); and Will Kymlicka and Magda Opalski (eds.), Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported? (OUP: 2001)’, History of European Ideas 29 (4): pp504-09
Articles in progress
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