E urasian M odernities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23587170 |
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| Authors | Arif Dirlik (Film Independent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118430873.est0819 |
| OpenAlex | W4254047941 |
| ISBN | 9781118430873 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
“Eurasian modernities” or, more broadly, “Afro‐Eurasian modernities,” is a designation for the roughly four centuries (fourteenth to the eighteenth) when societies across Afro‐Eurasia experienced transformative changes in their economy, society, politics, and culture. It may seem anachronistic (not to say Eurocentric) to extend back in time and stretch across space a concept associated with “modern” Euro/America, which itself extends back into this earlier period. This entry is an account of the conceptual and historical reasoning that justifies the designation. Two paramount considerations are to highlight the primary significance of global relationships in the formation of modernity and, thereby, to rescue from the erasures of Eurocentric historiography the part these “lost modernities” played in the origins of modernity.
Aesthetics · Anachronism · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Historiography · Modernity · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transformative learning · European Political History Analysis · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History
| Highly cited | No |
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