Political science & theory

Subjects of modernity

Time-space, disciplines, margins

Saurabh Dube. Series edited by Professor Gurminder K. Bhambra

Description

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by drawing in critical considerations of time and space. It explores the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under modernity as constitutive of our worlds. Instead of assuming a straightforward, singular trajectory of the phenomena, it discusses modernity as involving checkered, contingent and contended processes of meaning and power over the past five centuries. Subjects of modernity considers the overlaps yet distinctions between modernity, modernism and modernisation, further imaginatively exploring the relationship between history and anthropology. Critically engaging historical anthropology, subaltern studies, de-colonial understandings, and post-colonial procedures, it at once offers an innovative understanding of cultural identities and imaginatively reassess critical perspectives, from South Asia to Latin America. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, history, sociology, post-colonial studies and cultural geography, among other subjects, finding adoption in different courses/seminars across disciplines.

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Author Biography

Saurabh Dube is Research Professor at the Centre for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México, Mexico City

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Manchester University Press
  • Publication Date January 2017
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781526105110 / 152610511X
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 50 GBP
  • Pages192
  • ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Dimensions216 x 138 mm
  • Illustration6 black & white illustrations
  • Biblio Notes1 Subjects of modernity: an introduction 2 Intimations of modernity: time and space 3 Maps of modernity: antinomies and enticements 4 Disciplines of modernity: entanglements and ambiguities 5 Margins of modernity: identities and incitements 6 Modern subjects: an epilogue Index
  • SeriesTheory for a Global Age

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