Subjects of modernity

Subjects of modernityAuthor: Saurabh Dube ISBN: 9781526140272 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 17 May 2019 Pages: 248 Format: Paperback softback This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under

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