Critical Conjunctions
Foundations of Colony and Formations of Modernity
Duke University Press
Published on 1. December 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-0-8223-6549-5 (ISBN)
Description
What is the relationship between colonialism and modernity? Is modernity an exclusive product of Western cultures? In scholarly understandings and commonplace conceptions, modernity has long appeared as a distinctive milestone of Western civilization. Accordingly, progress on the road to modernity has become the common measure to assess the worth of states and citizens, nations and peoples, in non-Western contexts. Critical Conjunctions gathers leading scholars from Latin America and South Asia-representing a range of disciplines and perspectives-to address questions of colonial modernities. The essays examine such topics as the abiding Eurocentric premises at the heart of authoritative trade agreements, such as the International Monetary Fund, and the expression by contemporary Zapatistas of an alternative modernity. This special issue of Nepantla initiates a dialogue among regions, disciplines, and perspectives, mutually recasting colonialism and modernity. Contributors. Santiago Castro-Gomez, Ruben Chuaqui, Saurabh Dube, Ishita Banerjee Dube, Madhu Dubey, Enrique Dussel, Edgardo Lander, Andres Lira, Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, Sudipta Sen, Ajay Skaria, Guillermo Zermeno
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Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
3 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-6549-5 (9780822365495)
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Content
Introduction - Saurabh Dube World- System and "Trans" - Modernity - Enrique Dussel Eurocentrism, Modern Knowledges, and the Naturalization of the Global Order of Capital - Edgardo Lander Social Sciences, Epistemic Violence, and the Problem of the "Invention of the Other" - Santigo Castro-Gomez Reading a Silence: The "Indian" in the Era of Zapatismo - Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo Between Anthropology and History: Manuel Gamio and Mexican Anthropological Modernity (1916-1935) - Guillermo Zermeno Mapping Oppositions: Enchanted Spaces and Modern Places - Saurabh Dube Postmodern Geographies of the U.S. South - Madhu Dubey Orientalism, Antiorientalism, Relativism - Ruben Chuaqui Uncertain Dominance: The Colonial State and Its Contradictions (With Notes on the History of Early British-India) - Sudipta Sen Henry S. Maine: History and Antiquity in Law - Andres Lira BOOK REVIEW Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India, by Gyan Prakash Ajay Skaria