Subjects of modernity: Time-space, disciplines, margins

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Manchester University Press, Jan 20, 2017 - Social Science - 192 pages
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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.
 

Contents

List of figures
time and space
antinomies and enticements
entanglements and ambiguities
identities and incitements
an epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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Saurabh Dube is Research Professor at the Centre for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México, Mexico City

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