Enchantments of Modernity

Empire, Nation, Globalization
Herausgeber: Dube, Saurabh

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Produktbeschreibung

The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes of modernity also create their own enchantments in the mapping and making of the modern world. Straddling a range of disciplines and perspectives, the essays in this edited volume eschew programmatic solutions, focusing instead in new ways on subjects of slavery and memory, global transformations and vernacular and vernacular modernity, imperial imperatives and nationalist knowledge, cosmopolitan politics and liberal democracy, and governmental effects and everyday affects. It is in these ways that the volume attempts to unravel the enchantments of modernity, in order to approach anew modernity's constitutive terms, formative limits, and particular possibilities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780415602891
• ISBN-10: 0415602890
• Artikelnr.: 44828155

Autorenporträt

Saurabh Dube is Professor of History at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Modernity and its Enchantments: An Introduction Effects: Colony and
Nation 2. North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492-1945 3.
Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference 4. The Space of
Empire and the Territory of Nations 5. Sanitizing Modernity: Imperial
Hygiene, Obscenity, and Moral Regulation in Colonial India 6. Conversion to
Translation: Colonial Registers of a Vernacular Christianity 7. The Moment
of Criticism in Indian Nationalist Thought: Ramchandra Shukla and the
Poetics of a Hindi Responsibility 8. Gandhi's Politics: Liberalism and the
Question of the Ashram 9. Illiberal Islam 10. Legacies of Bandung:
Decolonization and the Politics of Culture Affects: The Global and the
Vernacular 11. Affect: What is it Good for? 12. The Class Consciousness of
Frequent Travelers Towards a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism
13. The Absent Presence: Discourses of Crypto-Colonialism 14. The Martyrdom
of Mosques: Imagery and Iconoclasm in Modern Pakistan 15. Mental Illness
and the Urban Poor: Psychiatric Institutions and the Singularity of Lives
16. The Time of Slavery 17. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and
Millennial Capitalism 18. The Beautiful Expanding Future of Poverty:
Popular Economics as Psychological Defence