ABSTRACT
In sociology—along with many other disciplines—has gone through a “global turn.” This focus on “the global” has been seen as a way in which sociology can redress a previous neglect of those represented as “other” in its construction of modernity. The most common form of engagement is to call for additional accounts of events, processes, and thinkers to supplement the already existing narratives, both of canonical texts and historical events. Calls for a “global sociology” began to gather momentum from the start of the twenty-first century. There was an earlier argument by Akiwowo, among others, for the “indigenization” of social science, which was taken up by Alatas and Sinha for an “autonomous” social science. This chapter aims to deconstruct the idea of what Palmer calls “the age of democratic revolution” by placing the Haitian Revolution alongside its two primary exemplars, the American Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution.
