Being and becoming (of/with) Burawoy: An anxious apprehension of public sociology in South Asia

Abstract

Reading public sociology with Burawoy amounts to an engagement with the process of being and becoming a sociologist. The blending of text and context offers a hermeneutics in which theory and theorist are political actors striving for dialectic of utopia and anti-utopia. In such a scheme this article turns inward to the context of sociology and anthropology in South Asia to adjudge the limits and possibility of public sociology.

Keywords

Anti-utopia public sociology South Asia teaching utopia

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