Subjects of Modernity - Time-Space, Disciplines, Margins (Hardcover)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Theory for a Global Age
Release date:	2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Saurabh Dube
Dimensions:	224 x 142 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	223
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-0511-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-5261-0511-X
Barcode:	9781526105110

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