1st Edition

Enchantments of Modernity Empire, Nation, Globalization

Edited By Saurabh Dube Copyright 2011
    522 Pages
    by Routledge India

    522 Pages
    by Routledge India

    The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes of modernity also create their own enchantments in the mapping and making of the modern world. Straddling a range of disciplines and perspectives, the essays in this edited volume eschew programmatic solutions, focusing instead in new ways on subjects of slavery and memory, global transformations and vernacular and vernacular modernity, imperial imperatives and nationalist knowledge, cosmopolitan politics and liberal democracy, and governmental effects and everyday affects. It is in these ways that the volume attempts to unravel the enchantments of modernity, in order to approach anew modernity's constitutive terms, formative limits, and particular possibilities.

    Foreword by Veena Das

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

     

    1. Modernity and its Enchantments: An Introduction

    Saurabh Dube

     

    Effects: Colony and Nation

    2. North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492–1945

    Michel-Rolph Trouillot

    3. Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference

    Walter D. Mignolo

    4. The Space of Empire and the Territory of Nations

    Uday S. Mehta

    5. Sanitizing Modernity: Imperial Hygiene, Obscenity, and Moral Regulation in Colonial India

    Deana Heath

    6. Conversion to Translation: Colonial Registers of a Vernacular Christianity

    Saurabh Dube

    7. The Moment of Criticism in Indian Nationalist Thought: Ramchandra Shukla and the Poetics

     of a Hindi Responsibility

    Milind Wakankar

    8. Gandhi’s Politics: Liberalism and the Question of the Ashram

    Ajay Skaria

    9. Illiberal Islam

    Faisal Devji

    10. Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture

    Dipesh Chakrabarty

     

    Affects: The Global and the Vernacular

     

    11. Affect: What is it Good for?

    William Mazzarella

    12. The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers Towards a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism

    Craig Calhoun

    13. The Absent Presence: Discourses of Crypto-Colonialism

    Michael Herzfeld

    14. The Martyrdom of Mosques: Imagery and Iconoclasm in Modern Pakistan

    Naveeda Khan

    15. Mental Illness and the Urban Poor: Psychiatric Institutions and the Singularity of Lives

    Veena Das (with assistance from Rajan Bhandari and Simi Bajaj)

    16. The Time of Slavery

    Saidiya V. Hartman

    17. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism

    Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff

    18. The Beautiful Expanding Future of Poverty: Popular Economics as Psychological Defence

    Ashis Nandy

     

    Biography

    Saurabh Dube is Professor of History at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico.