Umfang:
1 online resource (174 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780761966562
,
9781849202510
Serie:
Published in Association with Theory, Culture and Society Series
Inhalt:
This penetrating book re-examines `the project of modernity'. It seeks to oppose the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative `ethnographic' understanding. The book defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and historical contexts. It examines cases of `popular modernism' in the United States, Britain and colonial Malaysia, drawing out the specific cultural and religious assumptions underlying popular modernism and concludes that modernism is implicated in a diversity of forms of cultural and racial exclusion
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 MODERNITY AND ITS OTHERS: UNIVERSAL IDEALS AND PARTICULAR OUTCOMES -- 2 NATURALISING DIFFERENCE: CIVILISATION AND THE PRIMITIVE IN THE BRITISH IMAGINATION -- 3 AMERICAN MODERN: ALIENS, DESPOTS AND THE REPUBLIC -- 4 CIVILISATIONAL VIRTUES IN THE MALAY KAMPONG -- 5 ENCOUNTERING THE OTHER: MODERNISM AND RACISM -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Kahn, Joel S. Modernity and Exclusion London : SAGE Publications, Limited,c2001 ISBN 9780761966562
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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