01722nam a22001577a 4500020001800000041001300018082001900031100003000050245008900080260003400169300001600203504005100219520124600270546001201516650003601528  a9781032169422  aEnglish.  a330.954bSIN-S  aSinha, Dipankar eAuthor.  aThe social sciences in a global age : bdecoding knowledge politics/cDipankar Sinha  aNew York :bRoutledge,c2021.  axxiv, 173p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aThe book focuses on the status and role of the social sciences in the current millennium. Drawing inspiration from a range of theorists, it critically examines the key debates on the social science stream and focuses on its ir/relevance in our times in the background of changing state-market dialectics. It specifically scrutinises knowledge politics of the global times to reveal how the neoliberal project aligns and fuses steep economic ‘conditionalities’ with professional cultural parameters of higher academia to constrain autonomy and weaken radical expressions in social science pedagogy and research. Asserting that the humanistic core of social sciences has the potential to resist acts of reducing knowledge to a monochromatic form, the book argues that the social science stream can challenge and resist such hegemonic ambitions. It also identifies and analyses the contradictions, dilemmas, predicaments and false steps of social scientists, and avoids a reductive approach based on the ‘west versus non-west’ binary.

The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of the social sciences in general, and of sociology/politics of knowledge, political theory, political sociology and education in particular.  aEnlish.  aIndiaxPolitics and government.