translate themselves into certain categories, then the question arises of what pushes people toward translating themselves into some categories—such as modernity —but not others. Studying claims made about modernity in non-Euro-American settings, one thus
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Modernity, Ḥadātha, and Modernité in the Works of Abdallah Laroui
Conceptual Translation and the Politics of Historicity
Nils Riecken
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- Research Article
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- 67–90 (24 total)
‘Excesses’ of modernity
Mundane mobilities, politics and the remaking of the urban
Alice Stefanelli
Cars are celebrated as the technical and symbolic epitome of modernity but are also heavily implicated in the making of climate change, imbricated within a seemingly all‐powerful global capitalist system. What can an anthropological analysis of traffic in urban areas tell us about the enduring strength of this system? While cars in Beirut are both desired and necessary to move about, strong feelings of frustration are taking shape among residents and commuters who face the ever‐congested roads of the capital city daily. This mounting frustration indexes an emerging ‘structure of feeling’ towards everyday automobility that has created explicit and concrete desire for alternative mobilities, particularly public transport, which scholars of automobility had pronounced dead. In this light, while cars remain objects of desire, in Beirut as elsewhere, an ‘excess’ of automobility – of modernity, we might say – is in fact weakening the dominance of cars, exposing a potential brittleness previously undetected. Acknowledging this process forces us to reconsider our modernist assumptions about the inevitable predominance of cars and offers hope for alternative mobility futures.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Nov 2021
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- 1049–1063 (14 total)
The Mise-en-Scène of Modernity
Exposición Internacional del Centenario, Buenos Aires (1910)
Nicolas Freeman
regional link to Spain due to the recent arrival of huge numbers of Southern European immigrants (predominately from Spain and Italy). In Argentina the processes of mass migration and modernity were deeply implicated with each other. Those who arrived had
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2022
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- 89–111 (23 total)
The Notion of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Spain
An Example of Conceptual History
Javier Fernández Sebastián and Gonzalo Capellan de Miguel
This article provides an account of the concepts of modernidad and modernismo in the Spanish language, chiefly in Spain, from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. This account also reflects the peculiarities of how conceptual history is being conducted in Spain, which resulted in the recently published Diccionario de Conceptos Políticos y Sociales del Siglo xix Español. The authors conclude that an examination of these two terms reveals that the emphasis upon Spanish singularity has been exaggerated and that, despite the presumed historical backwardness of the country, Spain played an outstanding role in the creation of the language of modernity and postmodernity.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Oct 2005
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Introduction
Emerging Kinship in a Changing Middle East
Soraya Tremayne
marker, which we laid down, 10 years ago, on the impact of modernity on ‘Kinship in the Middle East’, in this journal ( Shahshahani and Tremayne 2007 ). Revisiting that special issue of Anthropology of the Middle East has proved critical in providing a
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Plural Modernity
Changing Modern Institutional Forms—Disciplines and Nation-States
Filipe Carreira da Silva and Mónica Brito Vieira
The article begins with the assumption that modernity is undergoing a profound change. The focus is on the structural transformation of two typical modern institutional regimes: the academic discipline and the territorial nation-state. Their demise as the predominant institutional forms in the realms of science and politics signals the end of the modern project—or at least the need for its profound redefinition. It is suggested that such a redefinition entails a radical conceptual shift in the social sciences and that the meta-theoretical expression of this shift can be designated as 'dialogical pluralism'. At a theoretical level, both modernization theories and the recent program of 'multiple modernities' are rejected. A plural modernity, with several distinct varieties, seems a more promising perspective.
Fragmentation in International Law and Global Governance
A Conceptual Inquiry
Timo Pankakoski and Antto Vihma
concept and metaphor of fragmentation. We also engage with the related ideas of differentiation and modernity. The conceptual history of fragment and fragmentation as social and historical categories has been mostly neglected prior to the analysis we
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 22–48 (27 total)
Evenki Adolescents’ Identities
Negotiating the Modern and the Traditional in Educational Settings
Svetlana Huusko
opposition to modernity, contributes to the portrayal of indigenous cultures as static and nonevolving. Accordingly, within the educational settings of Solino, the duality of tradition and modernity tends to correspond with Western academic thinking, which
Conceptual History of the Near East
The Sattelzeit as a Heuristic Tool for Interrogating the Formation of a Multilayered Modernity
Florian Zemmin and Henning Sievert
uncovering concepts that were central to Ottoman actors in the past, but that might have been lost in modernity. Explicitly avoiding the question of “how did we get there,” they pursue a strategy that is archaeological, rather than genealogical. 10 In turn
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2021
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- 1–26 (26 total)
In the shade of the chinar
Dushanbe's affective spatialities
Malika Bahovadinova
across the city center. By counterposing these positions and exploring the role of statist conceptions of modernity, personal and political memories of space and the emotions called forth by urban redevelopment, the article will elaborate on the place of