Sociologies (Mar 2016)
Au-delà de la controverse française : la critique postcoloniale dans le champ de la sociologie
Abstract
The aim of this article is to explore how sociology addresses the postcolonial critique by looking firstly, at the epistemological shift within which postcolonial studies lies and secondly, at the late coming of a postcolonial sociology. The purpose of this article is to shed new light on the French postcolonial controversy that has been questioning the legitimacy of postcolonial studies in the French academy for over a decade and, more indirectly, the ability of sociology to give an account of the logics of continuity in the field of social and multicultural phenomena.
