Modernity and Exclusion

Informationen zum Autor Joel Kahn is Professor! School of Social Sciences! La Trobe University of Melbourne Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and historical contexts. This title examines cases of 'popular modernism' in the United States! Britain and colonial Malaysia! drawing out the specific cultural and religious assumptions underlying popular modernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Modernity and Its Others Universal Ideals and Particular OutcomesNaturalizing Difference Civilization and the Primitive in the British ImaginationAmerican Modern Aliens! Despots and the RepublicCivilizational Virtues in the Malay KampongEncountering the Other Modernism and Racism

Product details

• Authors: Joel S. Kahn
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2001
• EAN: 9780761966562
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-6656-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society; Theory, Culture & Society (Har; Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society; Published in Association with
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories