Disciplines of Modernity

Reviews / Votes

"Disciplines of Modernity is a unique, thought-provoking, and challenging book. It makes an important intervention in the fields of social sciences and humanities by speaking across disciplines and archives. The work takes us forward from the moment of postcolonial and decolonial critique and recasts the framework within which scholars of/from the global south and the global north may henceforth converse."

- Prathama Banerjee, Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

"This is an innovative and inviting, powerful and provocative book. Abjuring the usual 'guarantees' of academic analysis, Dube conjoins intimacy and affect with structure and process. In the work, predilections of the postcolonial are interwoven with the contradictions of modernity, the contentions of disciplines are bound to ambiguities of the archive, and accumulation and development are crisscrossed by loss and excess."

- Mario Rufer, Professor, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico

"History and anthropology are core bridges between humanities and social science. They are integral to the intellectual formations constitutive of 'the West'. And as Saurabh Dube shows, they are not merely university disciplines but also disciplinary formations remaking modern subjectivity and critical perspectives throughout society. This is an original and compelling exploration."

- Craig Calhoun

, University Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe

"Disciplines of Modernity is a tour de force from one of the most generative, creative, and surprising thinkers of our time. Weaving personal itineraries with public life, this moving and insightful book cuts to the heart of the hierarchies that continue to shape the global production of knowledge."

- Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History, Yale University, New Haven