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Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference.
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Chakrababaity et al. as mentioned in this paper, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference Dipesh Chakrabaity Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000 ix + 301 pp, notes, indexAbstract:
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Literary Cosmopolitanisms of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy
TL;DR: Macwan et al. as discussed by the authors studied the literary cosmopolitanisms of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy through close reading and critical-research-qualitative analysis.
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Global social science discourse: A Southern perspective on the world
TL;DR: The relationship of social science and society is actively under discussion today in processes of social identity-making in the world at large as mentioned in this paper, and how, in different contexts, pow...
Inhuman Power: Infrastructural Modernism and the Fiction of Social Form
Abstract: E.M. Forster’s imperative to “only connect” has long been read as modernist slogan for the rarefied depth of authentic interpersonal intimacy. Reframing the historical co-emergence of literary modernism and modern social science, this project tells a different story—not of connections between exceptional humans, but of connections between persons and environments. The prevailing canons of modernism have not yet grasped the internal complexity of early-twentieth-century debates regarding the interdependence of human and nonhuman agency. Early-twentieth-century sociologists like Émile Durkheim grounded both the autonomy of human culture and the disciplinary authority of sociology on the premise of species exceptionalism—the independence of human relations from nature and technology. “Inhuman Power” uncovers how the latent epistemological assumptions of Durkheimian social theory continue to structure contemporary aesthetic value judgments and literary-historical paradigms. The dominant structuring prism of nineteenth-century social theory has led critics to understand modernist art as a form of human aesthetic agency responsive to the reifying degradations of machines, masses, and media—a symbolic consolation for human alienation from nature (both the natural world and the “second nature” of administered society). This model casts modernism within a protracted philosophical stalemate between the human and nonhuman that obscures the mixing of natural and social agencies. Challenging the presumed dominance of this position, “Inhuman Power” assembles a set of core texts that comprise a significant counter-aesthetic to the dualism of nature and society. Examining texts by E.M. Forster, H.G. Wells, Gabriel Tarde, Joseph Conrad, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Charles Chesnutt, this project recasts modernism not in terms of subjects alienated from nature, but subjectivities co-constituted with environments. A shared formal question animates all of the texts that I examine: by what aesthetic concept or literary feature can texts reimagine the conceptual relationship between character and environment, nature and society? Excavating aesthetic strategies developed across sociology and literary art to represent the intensifying entanglement of natural, social, and technological agencies in the first decade of the twentieth century, “Inhuman Power” reanimates these writers’ ambition to imaginatively transform the concepts through which human beings render the material world thinkable and thus how human beings interact with that world. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group English First Advisor Jed Esty Subject Categories History | Modern Literature | Other History This dissertation is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3442 INHUMAN POWER: INFRASTRUCTURAL MODERNISM AND THE FICTION OF SOCIAL FORM Natalie Amleshi A DISSERTATION in English Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2019 Supervisor of Dissertation ____________________________ Jed Esty, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English Graduate Group Chairperson _____________________________ Nancy Bentley, Donald T. Regan Professor of English Dissertation Committee Josephine Park, Professor of English Paul Saint-Amour, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities
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Introduction : Conceptualising the global South and South–South encounters
TL;DR: The study of South-South relations is of increasing interest to states, policy-makers and academics, often due to a professed desire to identify ways to maximise the potential benefits of the policies and practices developed by states across the global South as discussed by the authors.