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Autore: | Dube Saurabh |
Titolo: | Subjects of modernity : time-space, disciplines, margins / / Saurabh Dube |
Pubblicazione: | Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
©2017 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s) |
Disciplina: | 909.08 |
Soggetto topico: | Civilization, Modern |
Space - Social aspects | |
Time - Social aspects | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Series editor's foreword --Preface --1. 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 --Bibliography --Index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under modernity. Crucially, it understands these antinomies not as errors, but as constitutive elements of modern worlds. The book questions routine portrayals of homogeneous time and antinomian blueprints of cultural space, while acknowledging the production of time and space by social subjects. Instead of assuming a straightforward, singular trajectory for the phenomena, it views modernity as involving checkered, contingent and contended processes of meaning and power, which have found heterogeneous historical elaborations over the past five centuries. Bringing together past and present, theory and narrative, it sows the historical, ethnographic and methodological deep into its critical procedures, offering an innovative understanding of cultural identities and imaginatively exploring the relationship between history and anthropology. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Subjects of modernity |
ISBN: | 1-5261-0512-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910160764203321 |
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