Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in IndiaK. Sivaramakrishnan, Arun Agrawal This book advances public and scholarly debates on development and globalization in new directions. It presents carefully developed case studies to show how the subjects of development are shaped by, and actively reshape, development ideas, programs, and projects. The essays in this volume include cross-cultural perspectives from Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Indian diaspora. |
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... forms of power that have been productive of identities , regimes of ruling , and what Foucault terms a ' plurality of resistances , each of them a special case ... by definition , they can only exist in the strategic field of power ...
... forms of power that have been productive of identities , regimes of ruling , and what Foucault terms a ' plurality of resistances , each of them a special case ... by definition , they can only exist in the strategic field of power ...
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... forms of globalization , such as flows of images across mediascapes , take center stage here . But the chapter offers us fleeting glimpses of more . Kumar asks , for example , what others in Kureishi's and Rushdie's novels are doing ...
... forms of globalization , such as flows of images across mediascapes , take center stage here . But the chapter offers us fleeting glimpses of more . Kumar asks , for example , what others in Kureishi's and Rushdie's novels are doing ...
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... forms . Commenting on the latter trend , he writes : ' We have seen that happen : the refusal of modernity that takes the form of a return , a rediscovery of identity that constitutes a form of fundamentalism.'16 Is there a lesson for ...
... forms . Commenting on the latter trend , he writes : ' We have seen that happen : the refusal of modernity that takes the form of a return , a rediscovery of identity that constitutes a form of fundamentalism.'16 Is there a lesson for ...
Contents
The Traffic in Ideas about | 75 |
Becoming Developed | 99 |
Indians | 122 |
Copyright | |
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Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia Gunnel Cederl?f,K. Sivaramakrishnan No preview available - 2006 |