Enchantments of modernity : empire, nation, globalization
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Enchantments of modernity : empire, nation, globalization
（Critical Asian studies）
Routledge, 2009
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The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes of modernity also create their own enchantments in the mapping and making of the modern world. Straddling a range of disciplines and perspectives, the essays in this edited volume eschew 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 governmental effects and everyday affects. It is in these ways that the volume attempts to unravel the enchantments of modernity, in order to approach anew modernity's constitutive terms, formative limits, and particular possibilities.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Veena Das
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Modernity and its Enchantments: An Introduction
Saurabh Dube
Effects: Colony and Nation
2. North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492-1945
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
3. Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference
Walter D. Mignolo
4. The Space of Empire and the Territory of Nations
Uday S. Mehta
5. Sanitizing Modernity: Imperial Hygiene, Obscenity, and Moral Regulation in Colonial India
Deana Heath
6. Conversion to Translation: Colonial Registers of a Vernacular Christianity
Saurabh Dube
7. The Moment of Criticism in Indian Nationalist Thought: Ramchandra Shukla and the Poetics
of a Hindi Responsibility
Milind Wakankar
8. Gandhi's Politics: Liberalism and the Question of the Ashram
Ajay Skaria
9. Illiberal Islam
Faisal Devji
10. Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Affects: The Global and the Vernacular
11. Affect: What is it Good for?
William Mazzarella
12. The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers Towards a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism
Craig Calhoun
13. The Absent Presence: Discourses of Crypto-Colonialism
Michael Herzfeld
14. The Martyrdom of Mosques: Imagery and Iconoclasm in Modern Pakistan
Naveeda Khan
15. Mental Illness and the Urban Poor: Psychiatric Institutions and the Singularity of Lives
Veena Das (with assistance from Rajan Bhandari and Simi Bajaj)
16. The Time of Slavery
Saidiya V. Hartman
17. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism
Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff
18. The Beautiful Expanding Future of Poverty: Popular Economics as Psychological Defence
Ashis Nandy
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Description
The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes of modernity also create their own enchantments in the mapping and making of the modern world. Straddling a range of disciplines and perspectives, the essays in this edited volume eschew 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 governmental effects and everyday affects. It is in these ways that the volume attempts to unravel the enchantments of modernity, in order to approach anew modernity's constitutive terms, formative limits, and particular possibilities.
Table of Contents
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
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