Subjects of Modernity: Time-Space, Disciplines, Margins

Author: Saurabh Dube

Brand: Primus Books

Edition: First Edition

Binding: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 244

Release Date: 01-01-2017

Details: In Subjects of Modernity, Saurabh Dube thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, he investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under modernity. Crucially, Dube understands the antinomies of modernity not as analytical errors, but as constitutive elements of modern worlds. Dube questions routine portrayals of homogeneous time and antinomian blueprints of cultural space, while acknowledging the production of time and space by social subjects. Instead of assuming a straightforward, singular trajectory for the phenomena, it views modernity as involving checkered, contingent and contended processes of meaning and power, which have found heterogeneous historical elaborations over the past five centuries. Bringing together past and present, theory and narrative, it sows the historical, ethnographic and methodological deep into his critical procedures, offering an innovative understanding of cultural identities and imaginatively exploring the relationship between history and anthropology.

EAN: 9789386552525

Package Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English