Enchantments of Modernity

Empire, Nation, Globalization
Herausgeber: Dube, Saurabh

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume eschews programmatic solutions, focusing instead in new ways on subjects of slavery and memory, global transformations and vernacular and vernacular modernity, imperial imperatives and nationalist knowledge, cosmopolitan politics and liberal democracy, and govern

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 522
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781138151390
• ISBN-10: 1138151394
• Artikelnr.: 72834545

Autorenporträt

Saurabh Dube is Professor of History at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Modernity and its Enchantments: An Introduction Effects: Colony and
Nation 2. North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492-1945 3.
Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference 4. The Space of
Empire and the Territory of Nations 5. Sanitizing Modernity: Imperial
Hygiene, Obscenity, and Moral Regulation in Colonial India 6. Conversion to
Translation: Colonial Registers of a Vernacular Christianity 7. The Moment
of Criticism in Indian Nationalist Thought: Ramchandra Shukla and the
Poetics of a Hindi Responsibility 8. Gandhi's Politics: Liberalism and the
Question of the Ashram 9. Illiberal Islam 10. Legacies of Bandung:
Decolonization and the Politics of Culture Affects: The Global and the
Vernacular 11. Affect: What is it Good for? 12. The Class Consciousness of
Frequent Travelers Towards a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism
13. The Absent Presence: Discourses of Crypto-Colonialism 14. The Martyrdom
of Mosques: Imagery and Iconoclasm in Modern Pakistan 15. Mental Illness
and the Urban Poor: Psychiatric Institutions and the Singularity of Lives
16. The Time of Slavery 17. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and
Millennial Capitalism 18. The Beautiful Expanding Future of Poverty:
Popular Economics as Psychological Defence