Regional Modernities - The Cultural Politics of Development in India

Author: K SivaramakrishnanArun Agrawal/Publisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2003Language: EnglishPages: 452ISBN/UPC (if available): 0 19 5657012 DescriptionThis book brings together essays that critique entrenched discourses on development. Using culturalist frameworks, the essays advance public and scholarly debates on development that move beyond globally dominant and homogenized views of modernity.Drawing on extensive ethnographic treatments, the contributors to the volume point out the diversity of both the development experience, and the nature of modernities that development puts in place. The essays challenger post-structural analyses of development, and rethink the concept of globalization by strategically focusing on the cultural politics of social transformations.Further, the volume suggests that local histories and agencies are at work in any modern context. To this end, it advances the need for greater attention to the region as a conceptual device-to understand how the