Curious Visions of Modernity

Martin, David L.

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“…It must be added that at least in some cases, modernist research concepts may not even make that much sense within Europe, either -we know this from work in the fields of feminism and postcolonial theory, but also from the debate on post-secularism (cf. Harding 1998;Martin 2011;Asad 2003). I would like to stress, however, that despite his important critique, Chakrabarty (2010: 11f.…”

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Global Contestations of Gender Rights

Roth¹,

Scheele²,

Winkel³

2022

Global Contestations of Gender Rights

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is university lecturer for economic sociology and the sociology of work at Universität Bielefeld's Faculty of Sociology. She is member of the editorial board of the Femina Politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft. Julia Roth is a professor for American studies with a focus on gender studies and director of the Center for Interamerican Studies at Universität Bielefeld, Germany. She is PI of the graduate school "Experiencing Gender" at Universität Bielefeld. Heidemarie Winkel is a professor of sociology at Universität Bielefeld and senior research associate at the VHI/St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University (UK). She is a member of the editorial board of the ZRGP (Journal for Religion, Society and Politics) and is PI of the graduate school "Experiencing Gender" at Universität Bielefeld.

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Global Contestations of Gender Rights

Roth¹,

Scheele²,

Winkel³

2022

Global Contestations of Gender Rights

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“… 3. Indeed, there is an important line of argument that suggests that we need to rethink the idea that even Western modernity was accompanied by rationalization, disenchantment and so on; that this might be more the mythology of modernity than the reality of it (see, inter alia, Bennett, 2001; Comaroff, 1994; Martin, 2011; Meyer and Pels, 2003; Owen, 2004; Treitel, 2004; Winter, 1998). …”

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Is Thinking with ‘Modernity’ Eurocentric?

Seth

2016

Cultural Sociology

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In recent times it has been argued that thinking with the concept of 'modernity' entails, or at least makes one prey to, Eurocentrism. Those who are troubled by this have sought to rethink the concept such that one can 'think with' modernity, while avoiding, or even challenging, Eurocentrism. This article surveys some such attempts, before moving on to argue that the question of whether modernity is principally a European phenomenon or not cannot be adequately framed without considering the knowledge within which the question comes to be posed; for the knowledge through which we represent and understand modernity is itself, in its origins, European (and modern), and thus the relations between this knowledge and the 'real' that it purports to characterize, also need to be interrogated. Doing so, the article suggests, complicates the task of understanding modernity in non-Eurocentric terms, and leads to the recognition that the concept of modernity is not simply a means by which we describe, grasp or apprehend a phenomenon external to it, but that it is itself involved in the production of the modern. If this is so, we are (West and non-West) modern, though not in the way that we have hitherto presumed.

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Formation of Unstable Coalitions

Gohardani

Tizro

2019

The Political Economy of Iran

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Curious Visions of Modernity

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