Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is Professor of Sociology at Justus-Liebeg-University Giessen, Germany.

Manuela Boatc¿ is Professor of Sociology at Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany.

Sérgio Costa is Professor of Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Contents: Introduction: decolonising European sociology: different paths towards a pending project, Manuela Boatca, Sérgio Costa and Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez; Part I Unsettling Foundations: Postcolonial sociology: a research agenda, Manuela Boatca and Sérgio Costa; Sociology after postcolonialism: provincialized cosmopolitanisms and connected sociologies, Gurminder K. Bhambra; Decolonising postcolonial rhetoric, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez. Part II Pluralising Modernity: Different roads to modernity and their consequences: a sketch, Göran Therborn; New modernities: what's new?, Jan Nederveen Pieterse; European self-presentations and narratives challenged by Islam: secular modernity in question, Nilÿfer Göle. Part III Questioning Politics of Difference: Eurocentrism, sociology, secularity, Gregor McLennan; Wounded subjects: sexual exceptionalism and the moral panic on 'migrant homophobia' in Germany, Jin Haritaworn; The perpetual redrawing of cultural boundaries: Central Europe in the light of today's realities, Immanuel Wallerstein. Part IV Border-Thinking: Integration as postcolonial immigrants and people of colour: a German case study, Kien Nghi Ha; The coloniality of power and ethnic affinity in migration policy: the Spanish case, Sandra Gil Araújo; Not all the women want to be white: decolonizing beauty studies, Shirley Anne Tate. Part V Looking South: South of every North, Franco Cassano; From the postmodern to the postcolonial - and beyond both, Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Critical geopolitics and the decolonization of area studies, Heriberto Cairo; Index.