Communism and Modernity.

Daedalus;  January 1, 2000 ;   Arnason, Johann P.;   787 words ......dismissed as a failed revolt against modernity. [1] For the victors of the Cold War...ultimately self-destructive version of modernity, rather than a sustained deviation from...general crisis tendencies inherent in modernity. At a more practical level, the problems...

Islam and the ambiguities of modernity in current times

New Straits Times;  September 23, 2000 ;   Farish A. Noor;   787 words ......23-2000 Islam and the ambiguities of modernity in current times Byline: Farish A. Noor...lives under the triumphant banner of modernity and positivism. True, there are indeed...the world we see how the juggernaut of modernity has trampled underfoot the once-hallowed...

Modernity and Politics in India.

Daedalus;  January 1, 2000 ;   Kaviraj, Sudipta;   787 words ......theoretical models about the structure of modernity and its historical extension across the...understand the historical unfolding of modernity, especially in the non-Western world...the role of the political in India's modernity. THEORIES OF MODERNITY Most influential...

Voices of modernity: language ideologies and the politics of...

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  June 1, 2004 ;   Grillo, Ralph;   787 words ......RICHARD & CHARLES L. BRIGGS. Voices of modernity: language ideologies and the politics...for the connection between language and modernity which ranges far and wide through the...aim to place language at the centre of modernity, arguing that from the seventeenth century...

Modernity's gender

Novel;  January 1, 1997 ;   Ann Ardis;   787 words ...RRTA FELSKI, The Gender of Modernity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press...important new study, The Gender of Modernity (1). To demonstrate her point, she...proposed by two recent studies of modernity are affected by the gender of their...

Ardis, Ann L. and Leslie W. Lewis, eds. Women's Experience of Modernity...

Studies in the Novel;  June 22, 2005 ;   McCabe, Susan;   787 words ......W. LEWIS, EDS. Women's Experience of Modernity 1875-1945. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins...University Press, 2003. 312 pp. $22.00 paper. Modernity, as the title suggests, takes precedence...which women experience the impact of modernity--what amounts to a richly variegated...

Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts

Canadian Journal of Film Studies;  April 1, 2003 ;   Nash, Melanie;   787 words ...MELODRAMA AND MODERNITY: EARLY SENSATIONAL CINEMA AND ITS CONTEXTS Ben...accompanying late nineteenth and early twentieth century modernity. Ben Singer's excellent monograph Melodrama and Modernity operates firmly within this historiographic field...

Gender and modernity: perspectives from Asia and the...

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  September 1, 2004 ;   Hodgson, Dorothy L.;   787 words ......YUMIKO TOKITA-TANABE (eds). Gender and modernity: perspectives from Asia and the Pacific...Although anthropologists have long studied modernity, there has been an intense reexamination...anthropologists have moved beyond morality tales of modernity as redemptive good or destructive evil...

Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945

Business History Review;  April 1, 2006 ;   Allen, Michael Thad;   787 words ...Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945. By...00. ISBN: 0-521-84528-9. Studies of modernity are inherently comparative, for they rest on the assumption that modernity is something all countries-at least...

The baroque, modernity, and postmodernity in Latin American political...

The Review of Policy Research;  September 1, 2005 ;   Bilbao, Luis Ochoa;   787 words ......moment of true, constant, and effective modernity. For this reason it is worth the time...about the Latin American experience with modernity. On one side, they rescue that common...could well signify hope in respect to modernity. Latin America's crisis of modernity...

The domestication of desire: women, wealth, and modernity in Java.(Book...

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  September 1, 2005 ;   Stivens, Maila;   787 words ......domestication of desire: women, wealth, and modernity in Java. xvi, 301 pp., maps, illus...an engaging account of the making of modernity and its reversals--the 'making of the...modernization faltered. Seeking to examine modernity from the inside out, she wants to show...

Hinduism and Modernity.(Book Review)

International Bulletin of Missionary Research;  July 1, 2004 ;   Tennent, Timothy C.;   474 words ...Hinduism and Modernity. By David Smith. Oxford: Blackwell...pounds sterling] / $26.95. Hinduism and Modernity by David Smith seeks to explore how...seemingly disparate forces of Hinduism and modernity have interacted with one another. Smith...

Subjectivity, modernity, and Chinese Hegelian Marxism: a study of Li...

Philosophy East and West;  April 1, 1996 ;   Gu Xin;   787 words ......was the quest for a Chinese concept of modernity. This has definitely been not just a...integration of Chinese tradition and modernity. Furthermore, a serious interest in the problem of modernity has been not only a Chinese concern but...

The Thames Embankment and the disciplining of nature in modernity.

The Geographical Journal;  September 1, 2000 ;   OLIVER, STUART;   787 words ......emblematic stage in the construction of modernity's discourse of 'the natural', re-engineering...Thames embankments did not merely reflect modernity's discourse -- they actively helped mould...walls. KEY WORDS: London, Thames, nature, modernity, embankment The Thames embankments built...

Genesis in Buli: Christianity, blood, and vernacular modernity on an...

Ethnology;  June 22, 2004 ;   Bubandt, Nils;   787 words ......conventional ideas about tradition and modernity. The poetics and cultural politics of...telling of Genesis, attest to a paradoxical modernity. In this ambivalent modern imaginary...analyzing the entangled imaginaries of modernity and tradition in a marginalized Indonesian...