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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Alternative Modernity"”.
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The Contemporary Malaysian Fantastic Film: Imagining an Alternative Modernity
… possess critical characteristics: they offer an alternative version of an imagined community and undermine the status quo. These films deploy elements of fantasy to negotiate the dominant notions of cultural and national identity in Malaysia. However, my study notes that the degree of resistance …
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The politics of indigenous social struggle in Colombia
… The thesis uses Escobar’s three concepts: alternative development, alternative modernity, and alternatives to modernity as a conceptual lens with which to analyze three projects by the Nasa indigenous people of Colombia: the communitarian economy, the Proyecto Global, and the Tul home …
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At the Margins of the Plantation: Alternative Modernities and an Archaeology of the "Poor Whites" of Barbados
… argue that Below Cliff is best understood as an alternative modernity, a place in which residents were directly affected by processes of modernization, but through their own ways of relating to economic forces and their own experiences of race relations they were able to engender alternatives to …
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The Spiritual Turn: Modern Sufism and the Study of Islamic Art and Architecture
… Together, they believed in a possible mystical alternative modernity and argued for an esoteric understanding of aesthetics that would replace materialist and positivist modern art and architectural theories. The 1976 London World of Islam Festival was the culmination of this intellectual …
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Religion, Heritage, and Power： Everyday Life in Contemporary China
… life can become a cultural experience of alternative modernity and an arena of cultural autonomy. Religious life is never simply equivalent to the homogenising ambitions of any power, such as capitalism, atheism or materialism. The practice of intangible cultural heritage is a process of …
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Transatlantic transactions: writing hispanism at the centennial of 1892
… race and “spirit.” Hispanism offered them an alternative to the Anglo-Saxon and French modernities from which they were excluded as peripheral not-yet-modern nations. Both Latin American and Spanish authors implemented the myth of Hispanic anti-materialist spirituality to paradoxically …