Modernity and Exclusion
| Author | : Joel S Kahn |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2001-08-09 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0761966579 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780761966579 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (579 Downloads) |
Download or read book Modernity and Exclusion written by Joel S Kahn and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-08-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This penetrating book re-examines `the project of modernity'. It seeks to oppose the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative `ethnographic' understanding. The book defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and historical contexts. It examines cases of `popular modernism' in the United States, Britain and colonial Malaysia, drawing out the specific cultural and religious assumptions underlying popular modernism and concludes that modernism is implicated in a diversity of forms of cultural and racial exclusion.
