ABSTRACT
In recent years, sociology has come to engage with issues of ‘the global’ not just substantively but also epistemologically, seeking to redress its previous neglect of those represented as ‘other’ in its construction of modernity, or otherwise absent from accounts. In this chapter, I shall briefly address three main ways in which this has occurred and discuss these in the context of postcolonial critique.1 I shall end the chapter with a response to a particular critique of postcolonialism presented by Boike Rehbein at the International Conference on Circulating Social Science Knowledge in Freiburg in September 2012 and in this book.
