Figurations of modernity. Global and local representations in comparative perspective.

Sonst. Personen	Houben, Vincent J.H. (Hrsg.); Schrempf, Mona (Hrsg.)
Titel	Figurations of modernity. Global and local representations in comparative perspective. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Figurationen der Moderne. Globale und lokale Repräsentationen in vergleichender Perspektive.
Quelle	Frankfurt, Main: Campus Verl. (2008), 198 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Eigene und fremde Welten. Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnung im Vergleich. 12
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-3-593-38682-9
Schlagwörter	Familienplanung; Kolonialismus; Säkularisierung; Moral; Entwicklungsland; Traditionale Gesellschaft; Berufsbildung; Internationaler Vergleich; 19. Jahrhundert; Habitus; Historische Analyse; Modernisierung; Repräsentation; Museum; Argentinien; China; Indonesien; Mexiko; Nigeria; Tibet
Abstract	"Conventional wisdom holds that globalisation has made the world more modern, not less. But how has modernity been conceived of in colonial, postcolonial, and post-revolutionary worlds? In Figurations of Modernity, an international team of scholars probe how non-European worlds have become modern ones, from the perspective of a broad range of societies around the globe. From vocational education in Argentina to secular morality in Tibet, from the construction of heroes in Central Asia to historical memory in Nigeria, this comprehensive volume reckons with the legacy of empire in a globalising world." (author's abstract). Contents: Vincent Houben, Mona Schrempf: Introduction: Figurations and Representations of Modernity (7-20); Vincent Houben: Representations of Modernity in Colonial Indonesia (23-40); Michael Pesek: Performing the Metropolitan habitus: Images of European modernity in cross-cultural encounters in nineteenth century Eastern Africa (41-63); Eugenia Roldan Vera: Modern Indians: the Training of Indigenous Teachers in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (67-83); Veronica Oelsner: Representations of Modernisation and Vocational Education in Argentina at the Beginning of the 20th Century (85-102); Vincanne Adams: Modernity and the Problem of Secular Morality in Tibet (105-120); Mona Schrempf: Planning the Modern Tibetan Family in China (121-151); Peter Probst: The Modernity of Heritage: Visualizing the Past in a Nigerian City Kingdom (155-177); Olaf Guenther: Heroes in the Museum: Soviet Hero Constructions and Multiple Meanings of Modernity on the Soviet Periphery (179-193).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2010/1