Parution « Post-Western revolution in sociology : from China to Europe »

Within a movement towards the circulation and globalisation of knowledge, new centres and new peripheries form and new hierarchies appear – more or less discretely – producing competition and rivalry in the development of “new” knowledge. Centres of gravity in social sciences have been displaced towards Asia, especially China. We have entered a period of de-westernization of knowledge and co-production of transnational knowledge. This is a scientific revolution in the social sciences which imposes detours, displacements, reversals…
Auteur : Laurence Roulleau-Berger – Coll. Post-Western social sciences and global knowledge