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Subjects of Modernity - Time-Space, Disciplines, Margins (Paperback)
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Subjects of Modernity - Time-Space, Disciplines, Margins (Paperback)
Series: Theory for a Global Age
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List price R730
Loot Price R463
Discovery Miles 4 630
You Save R267 (37%)
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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. -- .
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