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- AUTHOR – Saurabh Dube
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- Year – 2017
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In Subjects of Modernity, Saurabh Dube thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, he investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under modernity. Crucially, Dube understands the antinomies of modernity not as analytical errors, but as constitutive elements of modern worlds. Dube questions routine portrayals of homogeneous time and antinomian blueprints of cultural space, while acknowledging the production of time and space by social subjects. Instead of assuming a straightforward, singular trajectory for the phenomena, it views modernity as involving checkered, contingent and contended processes of meaning and power, which have found heterogeneous historical elaborations over the past five centuries. Bringing together past and present, theory and narrative, it sows the historical, ethnographic and methodological deep into his critical procedures, offering an innovative understanding of cultural identities and imaginatively exploring the relationship between history and anthropology.
The Author
Saurabh Dube is Research Professor in History, Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México in Mexico City. He is author and editor of more than twenty-five books. Dube’s work combines historical anthropology and social theory, archival and field research. He has been visiting professor several times at institutions such as Cornell University and the Johns Hopkins University. Dube has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York; the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick; the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, South Africa; and the Max Weber Kolleg, Germany. He was elected recently to the DD Kosambi Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies, Goa University.
In Subjects of Modernity, Saurabh Dube thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, he investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under modernity. Crucially, Dube understands the antinomies of modernity not as analytical errors, but as constitutive elements of modern worlds. Dube questions routine portrayals of homogeneous time and antinomian blueprints of cultural space, while acknowledging the production of time and space by social subjects. Instead of assuming a straightforward, singular trajectory for the phenomena, it views modernity as involving checkered, contingent and contended processes of meaning and power, which have found heterogeneous historical elaborations over the past five centuries. Bringing together past and present, theory and narrative, it sows the historical, ethnographic and methodological deep into his critical procedures, offering an innovative understanding of cultural identities and imaginatively exploring the relationship between history and anthropology.
The Author
Saurabh Dube is Research Professor in History, Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México in Mexico City. He is author and editor of more than twenty-five books. Dube’s work combines historical anthropology and social theory, archival and field research. He has been visiting professor several times at institutions such as Cornell University and the Johns Hopkins University. Dube has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York; the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick; the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, South Africa; and the Max Weber Kolleg, Germany. He was elected recently to the DD Kosambi Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies, Goa University.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
| List of figures | ix |
| Series editor’s foreword | xi |
| Preface | xiii-xix |
| 1 Subjects of modernity: an introduction | 1-28 |
| 2 Intimations of modernity: time and space | 29-62 |
| 3 Maps of modernity: antinomies and enticements | 63-98 |
| 4 Disciplines of modernity: entanglements and ambiguities | 105-141 |
| 5 Margins of modernity: identities and incitements | 143-169 |
| 6 Modern subjects: an epilogue | 171-188 |
| Bibliography | 189-216 |
| Index | 217-223 |
