Alter/native modernities
By: Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, guest editor.
Contributors: Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar, 1945-
Series: Millennial quartet -- v. 1.; Public culture -- v. 11, no. 1.; Public culture (Durham, N.C.) -- v. 11, no. 1.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Pluralism (Social sciences); International relations and culture; Civilization, Modern; East and West; North and south
Other titles: Alternative modernities.; Alter native modernities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: On alternative modernities / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar; title: Settler modernity and the quest for an indigenous tradition / Elizabeth A. Povinelli; title: Translation, imperialism, and national self-definition in Russia / Andrew Wachtel; title: Shanghai modern / Leo Ou-fan Lee; title: Adda, Calcutta / Dipesh Chakrabarty; title: Miniaturizing modernity : Shahzia Sikander in conversation with Homi K. Bhabha / edited by Robert McCarthy; title: Two theories of modernity / Charles Taylor; title: On reconciling cosmopolitan unity and national diversity / Thomas McCarthy; title: Camera Zanzibar / William Cunningham Bissell; title: "Left to the imagination" / Tejaswini Niranjana; title: Afro-modernity / Michael Hanchard; title: Modes of citizenship in Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz; title: Modernist ruins / Beatriz Jaguaribe.