Notes about the critique of decolonizing social sciences
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Introduction: The “globalization” and “de-colonization” of the social sciences
1. The “globalization” of the social sciences – the introduction of nationalist thinking into social science thinking
1.1 Social sciences before their “globalisation”: Idealizations of State Societies
– Social science thinking from the perspective of citizens – theories as a recipe for domesticated materialism
– Civil societies and the ennoblement of their state’s mission in social science thinking: “Auschwitz” – a challenge for the state’s educational mission
– Social science thinking from the perspective of the citizen society: The Vietnam War – a challenge for its cohesion
1.2 “Globalised” thinking
– Nationalistic self-portraits of states
– The ennoblement of states as protection against the world of states called “globalization”
– Science as a global seismograph of nationalism – from the stale luck of having caught the right state
2. Comments on the life in a world of national citizen societies and its social science transfigurations
3. The global implementation of the social science of citizen society through its “de-colonisation”
3.1 The adaptation of the knowledge concept of the social sciences in the former colonised world through the critique of ‘”Eurocentrism”
3.2 The place of thought as a “contextual” source of scientific insights
3.3 From the self-criticism of the critics of capitalism to science as the founder of national identity
4. “Indigenous” knowledge that creates national identity – contributions to the ideological armament of states
4.1 State self-portraits of indigenous knowledge
4.2 Indigenized knowledge in global discourse
5. The final highlights of the master-minds of the globalized post-colonial thinking
5.1 Imperialisms as a methodological instrument of social science theory creation
5.2 Imperial theories – for imperial wars
6. Old and new mistakes and their sources: Theoretical legacies of the globalization and decolonization debates benefiting from the theoretical groundwork of HistoMat