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Informationen zum Autor Saurabh Dube is Professor of History at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico. Klappentext This volume eschews 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 govern Zusammenfassung This volume eschews 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 govern Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
