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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... practices and institutions that the universalist claims of Western political theory have failed to encompass . ' Cohen an- swers the challenge with a stunningly brilliant ethnography of embodied knowledge and practices that route ...
... practices and institutions that the universalist claims of Western political theory have failed to encompass . ' Cohen an- swers the challenge with a stunningly brilliant ethnography of embodied knowledge and practices that route ...
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... practices situated in heterogenous and multi - local politics , not a universal monolith of modernity . To encourage alternative practices of development , in Chakrabarty's provincializing project , ' pluralizes the history of power in ...
... practices situated in heterogenous and multi - local politics , not a universal monolith of modernity . To encourage alternative practices of development , in Chakrabarty's provincializing project , ' pluralizes the history of power in ...
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... practices that converged around a single institutional form . Far from a unified rationality of rule overdetermining the practices of subaltern subjects , the multiplicity of cultural practices surrounding the darbar attest to fissures ...
... practices that converged around a single institutional form . Far from a unified rationality of rule overdetermining the practices of subaltern subjects , the multiplicity of cultural practices surrounding the darbar attest to fissures ...
Contents
The Traffic in Ideas about | 75 |
Becoming Developed | 99 |
Indians | 122 |
Copyright | |
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Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India K. Sivaramakrishnan,Arun Agrawal No preview available - 2003 |
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