Questions Of Modernity: Volume 11 (Contradictions of Modernity, Volume 11) - Softcover

Mitchell, Timothy

 
9780816631346: Questions Of Modernity: Volume 11 (Contradictions of Modernity, Volume 11)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816631344 ISBN 13: 9780816631346
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Well-known contributors offer an illuminating look at how modernity develops in non-Western contexts.

Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty--which meant assigning a different and lesser significance to anything deemed purely local, non-Western, or lacking a universal expression. This book makes those very non-Western, non-universal elements the tools for fashioning a more complex, rigorous, and multifaceted understanding of how the modern comes about. Focusing on the making of modernity outside the West, eight leading anthropologists, historians, and political theorists explore the production of new forms of politics, sensibility, temporality, and selfhood in locations ranging from nineteenth-century Bengal to contemporary Morocco.

Topics include the therapeutics of colonial medical practice, the multiple registers of popular film, television serials and their audiences, psychiatrists and their patients, the iconic figure of the young widow, and the emergence of new political forms beyond the grasp of civil society.

Contributors: Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia U; Dipesh Chakrabarty, U of Chicago; Partha Chatterjee, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Veena Das, U of Delhi; Nicholas B. Dirks, Columbia U; Stefania Pandolfo, UC Berkeley; and Gyan Prakash, Princeton U.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Timothy Mitchell is associate professor of politics and director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center at New York University.

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Verlag
University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0816631344
ISBN 13 
9780816631346
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Anzahl der Seiten
260
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