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Other Modernities
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Author : Lisa Rofel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-03-01
Other Modernities written by Lisa Rofel and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-01 with Social Science categories.
In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age. The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory right around the Communist revolution in 1949, those who were youths during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, and those who have come of age in the Deng era. Exploring attitudes toward work, marriage, society, and culture, she convincingly connects the changing meanings of the modern in official discourse to the stories women tell about themselves and what they make of their lives. One of the first studies to take up theoretically sophisticated issues about gender, modernity, and power based on a solid ethnographic ground, this much-needed cross-generational study will be a model for future anthropological work around the world.
Other Modernities
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Author : Lisa Rofel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-03
Other Modernities written by Lisa Rofel and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03 with History categories.
"Cogent, evocative, and theoretically rigorous. I know of no one else who has so artfully delineated the complex, heterogeneous effects of political mobilization on the formation of collective and individual subjectivities."—Dorinne Kondo, author of Crafting Selves
Reflections On Multiple Modernities
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Author : Dominic Sachsenmaier
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Reflections On Multiple Modernities written by Dominic Sachsenmaier and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Multiple Modernities is a departure from the "classic" sociological homogenization theories. The edition presents an interdisciplinary discussion of the topic in sociological, historical and economic dimensions. It explores culturally specific forms of modernity with a focus on China and Europe.
Modernities And Other Writings
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Author : Blaise Cendrars
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Modernities And Other Writings written by Blaise Cendrars and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Collections categories.
Blaise Cendrars was the pseudonym of Frederic-Louis Sauser (1887-1961), a Swiss-born poet and novelist. A contemporary of Apollinaire and Max Jacob, and a friend of Chagall and Modigliani, he must be reckoned with as a prophetic voice. Of all the avant-garde writers, he was the one most attuned to our age; hence the title of this collection of his short prose works. Modernities represents the poet at his most intense. The seven essays consider modern artists, many of them his friends and associates, and their altered relations to a new world of communications technology, advertising, and mass politics. These essays are daring and inventive in their expression of the sense of simultaneity—far more so than the "official" artistic manifestoes of their period, the first quarter of the twentieth century. Because most of the selections have never before been translated and have been hard to find, this volume brings to the English-language reader for the first time an essential part of the European voice of the avant-garde.
Another Modernity
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Author : Scott Lash
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1999-08-25
Another Modernity written by Scott Lash and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-25 with Social Science categories.
This book is Lash's most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies and the visual arts. Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This second modernity has - in opposition to the Enlightenment rationality of progress, order, homogeneity and cognition - initiated a different rationality of uncertainty, transience, experiment, and the unknowable. This second, this other modernity, is present in notions of 'difference' and 'reflexivity' so central to the contemporary world-view. The logic, however, of such notions can, itself, lead to the same unhappy abstraction of the first modernity. What is forgotten, Scott Lash argues, is the dimension of the ground. This book consists of explorations into this ground: as place, community, belonging, sociality, tradition, life-world; as symbol, sensation, in the tactile character of the sign. The book addresses the other modernity's forgotten ground. The first and second modernities co-existed in a state of irresolvable tension along the history of western industrial capitalism. This is thrown into crisis, Lash argues, with the turn of the twenty-first century emergence of the global information culture. What are the implications of this explosion of first and second modernities into today's technological culture? When the previously existing third space of difference is exploded into the general indifference of information and communication flows? How might we lead our lives in an age in which difference - and indeed the ground itself - become primarily a matter for memory, for mourning?
Alternative Modernities
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Author : Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2001
Alternative Modernities written by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
A special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE, this volume of essays examines modernity from transnational and transcultural perspectives, holding that within different cultures, there are different starting points of the transition to modernity that lead to differen
Rethinking Modernity
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Author : G. Bhambra
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-04-11
Rethinking Modernity written by G. Bhambra and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-11 with Social Science categories.
Arguing for the idea of connected histories, Bhambra presents a fundamental reconstruction of the idea of modernity in contemporary sociology. She criticizes the abstraction of European modernity from its colonial context and the way non-Western "others" are disregarded. It aims to establish a dialogue in which "others" can speak and be heard.
Delimiting Modernities
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Author : Sven Trakulhun
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-02-12
Delimiting Modernities written by Sven Trakulhun and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-12 with Social Science categories.
This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial studies. Hitherto, most engagements with modernity in the plural have remained conspicuously confined to one or other intra-disciplinary notion of modernities, such as that of Shmuel Eisenstadt’s “multiple modernities” which has triggered a host of conference papers and publications largely within sociology: all the while, it seems that the literatures, for instance, of multiple modernities and alternative modernities are each distinguished by the fact that one ignores the other. It is the principal aim of this edited volume to subject these disciplinary discussions to a more encompassing view, assembling contributions from different scholars who not only work in different disciplines and regional settings, but who also engage with their research topics in a variety of approaches and at different levels of analysis. The volume thus transcends the sometimes narrow boundaries of the debates over modernities within the established academic disciplines and seeks to turn the unavoidable friction brought about by this interdisciplinary setting into most original and insightful scholarship.
Arab Modernism As World Cinema
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Author : Peter Limbrick
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2020-03-10
Arab Modernism As World Cinema written by Peter Limbrick and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-10 with Performing Arts categories.
Arab Modernism as World Cinema explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema. Addressing the legacy of the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the nineteenth and early twentieth century—when Arab writers and artists reenergized Arab culture by engaging with other languages and societies—Peter Limbrick argues that Smihi’s films take up the spirit of the Nahda for a new age. Examining Smihi’s oeuvre, which enacts an exchange of images and ideas between Arab and non-Arab cultures, Limbrick rethinks the relation of Arab cinema to modernism and further engages debates about the use of modernist forms by filmmakers in the Global South. This original study offers new routes for thinking about world cinema and modernism in the Middle East and North Africa, and about Arab cinema in the world.
Exploring Indian Modernities
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Author : Leïla Choukroune
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-04
Exploring Indian Modernities written by Leïla Choukroune and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-04 with Social Science categories.
This book analyses how multiple and hybrid ‘modernities’ have been shaped in colonial and postcolonial India from the lens of sociology and anthropology, literature, media and cultural studies, law and political economy. It discusses the ideas that shaped these modernities as well as the lived experience and practice of these modernities. The two broad foci in this book are: (a) The dynamism of modern institutions in India, delineating the specific ways in which ideas of modernity have come to define these institutions and how institutional innovations have shaped modernities; and (b) perspectives on everyday practices of modernities and the cultural constituents of being modern. This book provides an enriching read by bringing together original papers from diverse disciplines and from renowned as well as upcoming scholars.
