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J. I. Hans Bakker at FHS

The Department of Historical Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, CU is pleased to invite you to guest lectures given by prof. J. I. Hans Bakker (University of Guelph, Canada).

• 7/10/2019: "Why Should Weber's Epistemology Be Called the Use of Ideal Type Models"

• 8/10/2019: "Why Was Indonesia Not a White Settler Colony? Comparing Different Colonial and Imperial Policies in Southeast Asia"

Prof. J.I. Hans Bakker taught Sociology and Anthropology at four different universities early in his career but became a Full Professor at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His work has focused on Comparative Historical Sociology with an empirical emphasis on Indic Civilization. He has written about Gandhi and about colonialism in the Indonesian archipelago before independence. He has also done consulting work for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in Sulawesi, Indonesia, some of which involved studying the Bajo (Bajau, Sea Nomad) people. His recent edited books are entitled: The Methodology of Political Economy: Studying the Global Rural-Urban Matrix (Lexington, 2015) and Rural Sociologists at Work: Candid Accounts of Theory, Method, and Practice (Routledge, 2016). He guest edited a special issue of the journal Sociological Focus on Grounded Theory (2019). In addition to his academic activities he is also very interested in religious institutions and spiritual paths, having studied Tibetan Buddhism and the history of Judaism and Christianity in depth. His philosophical orientation is based on the work of Wilhelm Dilthey and his sociological theory is Neo-Weberian but also includes aspects of Neo-Marxian World Systems Theory (WST) (e.g. Wallerstein).

Website: http://jihansbakker.com/

Visit and guest lectures of prof. Hans Bakker were supported by the PROGRES Q20 "Kultura a společnost".