The Crisis of Global Modernity, Duara

Автор: Duara
Название: The Crisis of Global Modernity
ISBN: 1107442850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107442856
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Prasenjit Duara explores the idea that the process of modernisation has resulted in an overreach in our conquest of nature, leading to a crisis of sustainability. Drawing on historical sociology and circulatory histories, and through a rich engagement with transcendent Asian traditions, Duara seeks answers to the challenges accompanying global modernity.

Автор: Belliappa Jyothsna
Название: Gender, Class and Reflexive Modernity in India
ISBN: 0230300189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230300187
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.

Автор: Rogaski Ruth
Название: Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China
ISBN: 0520283821 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520283824
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this title reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Автор: Solt George
Название: The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze
ISBN: 0520282353 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520282353
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Описание: A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen Offers an account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan. It traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor to international icon of Japanese culture.

Автор: Thomas, Julia Adeney,
Название: Reconfiguring Modernity
ISBN: 0520228545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520228542
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Описание: Shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature`s political authority were central during Japan`s transformation from a semifeudal world to an industrializing colonial empire. This book presents insights into prewar Japan`s failure to achieve liberal democracy.

Автор: Fung
Название: The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity
ISBN: 1107547679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107547674
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Описание: In the early twentieth century, China was on the brink of change. Different ideologies - radicalism, conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy - were much debated in political and intellectual circles. Edmund S. K. Fung shows how they related to one another and how intellectuals engaged according to their different cultural and political persuasions.

Автор: Abraham
Название: Islamic Reform and Colonial Discourse on Modernity in India
ISBN: 1137383135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137383136
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Описание: In Kerala, Vakkom Moulavi motivated Muslims to embrace modernity, especially modern education, in order to reap maximum benefit. In this process, he initiated numerous religious reforms. However, he held fairly ambivalent attitudes towards individualism, materialism and secularization, defending Islam against the attacks of Christian missionaries.

Автор: Arnold David
Название: Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India`s Modernity
ISBN: 022626937X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226269375
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Описание: Showcases how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author examines how such technologies became integral to fresh ways of thinking about class, race, and gender, as well as about the politics of colonial rule.

Автор: Mohanty
Название: Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature
ISBN: 0230619045 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230619043
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Описание: The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of `alternative` and `indigenous` modernities

Автор: Whalen-Bridge John
Название: Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia
ISBN: 1137332948 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137332943
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Описание: Leading scholars working on Buddhism and politics in South and Southeast Asia add to current discussions regarding `Engaged Buddhism` and the recent work on protests. The writers have mostly established themselves in their fields, offering a diverse approach and country-by-country coverage.