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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... production of different modernities . It is precisely because the production of modernities occurs in sites with variable spatial and relational features that our proposal of regional becomes meaningful . Unlike local or global , the ...
... production of different modernities . It is precisely because the production of modernities occurs in sites with variable spatial and relational features that our proposal of regional becomes meaningful . Unlike local or global , the ...
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... production , if you will . They foreground , thus , all the messiness involved in the power - plays of assembling narratives . 141 We suggest that a ' narrative ' comes into focus only when the tensions and indeterminacies of its ...
... production , if you will . They foreground , thus , all the messiness involved in the power - plays of assembling narratives . 141 We suggest that a ' narrative ' comes into focus only when the tensions and indeterminacies of its ...
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... production of particular ideas about rural Changar women and their needs , the politics of unequal resources which affects the force with which ideas travel , and the production of new subjectivities as rural women mediate and create ...
... production of particular ideas about rural Changar women and their needs , the politics of unequal resources which affects the force with which ideas travel , and the production of new subjectivities as rural women mediate and create ...
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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