Modernity and Exclusion

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-7619-6657-9
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

Reihe: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

This penetrating book re-examines `the project of modernity'. It seeks to oppose the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative `ethnographic' understanding. The book defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and historical contexts. It examines cases of `popular modernism' in the United States, Britain and colonial Malaysia, drawing out the specific cultural and religious assumptions underlying popular modernism and concludes that modernism is implicated in a diversity of forms of cultural and racial exclusion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kahn, Joel S

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Modernity and Its Others Universal Ideals and Particular Outcomes Naturalizing Difference Civilization and the Primitive in the British Imagination American Modern Aliens, Despots and the Republic Civilizational Virtues in the Malay Kampong Encountering the Other Modernism and Racism

Über Autor(innen)

Kahn, Joel S
Joel Kahn is Professor, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University of Melbourne