Occidentalism and Plural Modernities
Or How Fukuzawa and Tagore Invented the West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4873185 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alastair Bonnett (0000-0002-7052-9298, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, England, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 505-525 |
| Publication date | 2005-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d366t |
| OpenAlex | W2127385747 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 50 |
The conflation of the West with modernity is being challenged by new critical interventions on the themes of 'occidentalism' and 'plural modernities'. In this paper I bring these themes together into an account of the way the idea of the West has been employed and deployed in the construction of non-Western modernities. This is done in the company of two important figures in the articulation and invention of the West, the Japanese 'Westerniser' Fukuzawa Yukichi and the Indian poet and advocate of spiritual Asia Rabindranath Tagore. Fukuzawa and Tagore developed contrasting narratives both of the West and of Asia, narratives which they employed to express novel and distinctive visions of the nature of modern life
Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology · Epistemology · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Plural · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2020 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |