Sites Of Modernity

Author : Wasana Wongsurawat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783662457269

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Sites of Modernity by Wasana Wongsurawat Pdf

This book investigates, compares and contrasts the experience of entering into and engaging in modernity and the modern era in many parts of the Asian continent. It focuses on the coming into being, development, and transformation of major urban centers from Tokyo to Mumbai from the late 19th century to the present, providing a broad overview of this crucial period of transition in Asia, not only from diverse geographical and historical perspectives, but also incorporating a broad range of further disciplines.

Author : Martin H. Geyer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805390268

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Sites of Modernity—Places of Risk by Martin H. Geyer Pdf

“Places of risk” and “sites of modernity” refer not merely to physical locations, but also objects and institutions that stand at the center of contemporary debates on security and risk. These are social and political domains where energy and infrastructure are produced, where domestic security is pursued and maintained, and where citizens encounter the state in its punitive or monitory roles. Taking a wide view of the period from the 1970s to today, this volume brings together innovative, interdisciplinary case studies of sites of modernity that promise to provide security and safety, yet at the same time are deemed responsible for creating new risks. With a particular contemporary interest in the technocratic changes of security and risk control the contributors to Sites of Modernity — Places of Risk position the 1970s as a turning point in the path from industrial to post-industrial modernity.

Author : Rob Shields
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136134449

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Places on the Margin by Rob Shields Pdf

The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining `places on the margin'.

Author : Violeta Schubert
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789208634

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Modernity and the Unmaking of Men by Violeta Schubert Pdf

Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender. It argues that as a critical consequence of demographic rupture, changing values and societal shifts, aging bachelorhood illuminates and challenges conceptualizations of performativity and social presence.

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 145290006X

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Modernity At Large by Arjun Appadurai Pdf

Author : Rebecca S. Graff
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813057552

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Disposing of Modernity by Rebecca S. Graff Pdf

Through archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Disposing of Modernity explores the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century. Featuring excavations of trash deposited during the fair, Rebecca Graff’s first-of-its-kind study reveals changing consumer patterns, notions of domesticity and progress, and anxieties about the modernization of society. Graff examines artifacts, architecture, and written records from the 1893 fair’s Ohio Building, which was used as a clubhouse for fairgoers in Jackson Park, and the Charnley-Persky House, an aesthetically modern city residence designed by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Many of the items she uncovers were products that first debuted at world’s fairs, and materials such as mineral water bottles, cheese containers, dentures, and dinnerware illustrate how fairs created markets for new goods and influenced consumer practices. Graff discusses how the fair’s ephemeral nature gave it transformative power in Chicago society, and she connects its accompanying “conspicuous disposal” habits to today’s waste disposal regimes. Reflecting on the planning of the Obama Presidential Center at the site of the Chicago World’s Fair, she draws attention to the ways the historical trends documented here continue in the present. Published in cooperation with the Society for Historical Archaeology

Author : José F. Aranda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496229892

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The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948 by José F. Aranda Pdf

In The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948, José F. Aranda Jr. describes the first one hundred years of Mexican American literature. He argues for the importance of interrogating the concept of modernity in light of what has emerged as a canon of earlier pre-1968 Mexican American literature. In order to understand modernity for diverse communities of Mexican Americans, he contends, one must see it as an apprehension, both symbolic and material, of one settler colonial world order giving way to another more powerful colonialist but imperial vision of North America. Letters, folklore, print culture, and literary production demonstrate how a new Anglo-American political imaginary revised and realigned centuries-old discourses on race, gender, class, religion, citizenship, power, and sovereignty. The "modern," Aranda argues, makes itself visible in cultural productions being foisted on a "conquered people," who were themselves beneficiaries of a notion of the modern that began in 1492. For Mexican Americans, modernity is less about any particular angst over global imperial designs or cultures of capitalism and more about becoming the subordinates of a nation-building project that ushers the United States into the twentieth century.

Author : Matthew Beaumont,Michael J. Freeman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039110241

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The Railway and Modernity by Matthew Beaumont,Michael J. Freeman Pdf

Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. Authors have been very effective at constructing specialist histories of transport, but have failed to register the railway's central importance in the representation and understanding of modernity. This book brings together contributions from a range of established scholars in a variety of disciplines with the central purpose of exploring the railway less as a transport technology than as a key signifier of capitalist modernity. It examines the complex social relations in which the railway became historically embedded, identifying it as a central problematic in the cultural experience of modernity. It avoids the limitations of both the close-sighted empiricism typical of many transport historians and the long-sighted generalizations of cultural commentators who view the railway merely as a shorthand for the concept of progress over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book draws on a diverse range of materials, including literary and historical forms of representation. It is also informed by a creative application of various critical theories.

Author : Francesca Carneval,Julie-Marie Strange
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868378

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20th Century Britain by Francesca Carneval,Julie-Marie Strange Pdf

Written by leading international scholars, Twentieth Century Britain investigates key moments, themes and identities in the past century. Engaging with cutting-edge research and debate, the essays in the volume combine discussion of the major issues currently preoccupying historians of the twentieth century with clear guidance on new directions in the theories and methodologies of modern British social, cultural and economic history. Divided into three, the first section of the book addresses key concepts historians use to think about the century, notably, class, gender and national identity. Organised chronologically, the book then explores topical thematic issues, such as multicultural Britain, religion and citizenship. Representing changes in the field, some chapters represent more recent fields of historical inquiry, such as modernity and sexuality.

Author : Jack Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351347242

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Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide by Jack Palmer Pdf

This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges both the Eurocentric assumptions which have underpinned many sociological theorisations of modernity, and the notion that the processes of modernisation move gradually, if precariously, towards more peaceable forms of cohabitation within and between societies. Addressing these themes at critical historical junctures – precolonial, colonial and postcolonial – the book argues that the recent experiences of extremely violent social conflict in Burundi and Rwanda cannot be seen as an ‘object apart’ from the concerns of sociologists, as it is commonly presented. Instead, these experiences are situated within a specific route to and through modernity, one ‘entangled’ with Western modernity. A contribution to an emerging global historical sociology, Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in postcolonialism, historical sociology, multiple modernities and genocide.

Author : Magdalina Stancheva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Bulgaria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039401380

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Archaeological Sites in Modern Bulgarian Towns by Magdalina Stancheva Pdf

Author : José F. Aranda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496224132

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The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948 by José F. Aranda Pdf

José F. Aranda Jr. demonstrates how the burdens of modernity become the dominant discursive logic for understanding why people of Mexican descent nonetheless wrote and invested in print culture without any guarantee of its social, cultural, or political efficacy.

Author : David Ohana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351110501

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The Intellectual Origins of Modernity by David Ohana Pdf

The Intellectual Origins of Modernity explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault and its roots, which are not to be found in a desire for enlightenment or in the idea of progress but in the Promethean passion of Western humankind. Modernity is the Promethean passion, the passion of humans to be their own master, to use their insight to make a world different from the one that they found, and to liberate themselves from their immemorial chains. This passion created the political ideologies of the nineteenth century and made its imprint on the totalitarian regimes that arose in their wake in the twentieth. Underlying the Promethean passion there was modernity—humankind's project of self-creation—and enlightenment, the existence of a constant tension between the actual and the desirable, between reality and the ideal. Beneath the weariness, the exhaustion and the skepticism of post-modernist criticism is a refusal to take Promethean horizons into account. This book attests the importance of reason, which remains a powerful critical weapon of humankind against the idols that have come out of modernity: totalitarianism, fundamentalism, the golem of technology, genetic engineering and a boundless will to power. Without it, the new Prometheus is liable to return the fire to the gods.

Author : Rob Shields
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136134364

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Places on the Margin by Rob Shields Pdf

The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining `places on the margin'.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004320239

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Religion, Place and Modernity by Anonim Pdf

The volume Religion, Place and Modernity explores the spatial articulation of religion and modernity in and through places in Southeast and East Asia. Based on ethnographic, historical and theoretical research, the authors aim at a deeper understanding of the articulation of a religious modernity.