Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic: A Cross-disciplinary Perspective

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2022

Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic

A Cross-disciplinary Perspective

Edited by: Hatem Akil and Simone Maddanu

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553921

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Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic explores issues related to the global crises of our time: reason, science, and the environment by revisiting the notions of modernity, modernism, and modernization, which can no longer be considered purely Western or strictly secular. The book poses questions about viewing modernity today from the vantage point of traditionally disparate disciplines – engaging scholars from sociology to science, philosophy to robotics, medicine to visual culture, mathematics to cultural theory, biology to environmental studies. Leading sociologist Alain Touraine contributes a new text in which he reflects on the role of women, refugees and migrants, and the future of democracy. In their conclusion, the editors posit a fundamental ethical distinction between modernization and modernity and call for a new understanding of modernity that is globally distributed, informed by the voices of many, and concerned with crises that threaten all of us at the level of the species – a modernity-to-come.

Author / Editor information

Akil Hatem :

Hatem N. AKIL, Southern New Hampshire University, USA – is a visual culture researcher who is interested primarily in the perception and representation of Arabs and Muslims. Among his publications “Cinematic Terrorism,” “The Martyr’s Vision,” and the monograph The Visual Divide between Islam and the West (Palgrave, 2016). He teaches in the Humanities department Southern New Hampshire University.Maddanu Simone :

Simone MADDANU, University of South Florida, USA – earned his PhD at the EHESS of Paris in 2009. His research interests focus on social movements, commons, migration, Islam in Europe, global and postcolonial studies. He currently teaches Sociology and Contemporary Social Problems at the University of South Florida. He published several books and articles in different languages.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
1. Connecting Modernities A Global Update Simone Maddanu and Hatem N. Akil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Part I Modernity as We Know It
2. Technology and the Texture of Modernity Alessandro Mongili Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Math and Modernity: Critical Reflections Lucio Cadeddu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4. Stranded Modernity Post-war Hiroshima as Discursive Battlefield Daishiro Nomiya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5. The (In)Compatibility of Islam with Modernity (Mis)Understanding of Secularity/Secularism in the Arab and Islamicate Worlds Housamedden Darwish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
6. The Missing Body Figurative Representations in Islamic Iconography Hatem N. Akil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Part II Modernity under Fire
7. Criticism of “Colonial Modernity” through Kurdish Decolonial Approaches Engin Sustam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
8. Conflicting Modernities: Militarization and Islands Aide Esu and Simone Maddanu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
9. Project Modernity: From Anticolonialism to Decolonization Shumaila Fatima and David Jacobson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Part III In the Shadow of the Pandemic
10. Modernity and Decision-Making for Global Challenges Elizabeth G. Dobbins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
11. Public Health Confronts Modernity in the Shadow of the Pandemic Richard Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
12. Human Identity and COVID-19 Space and Time in the Post-modern Era Rachid Id Yassine and Beatriz Mesa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Part IV Imagining New Global Frameworks
13. Environmentalism: A Challenge to Modernity Antimo Luigi Farro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
14. The Cognitive Immune System The Mind’s Ability to Dispel Pathological Beliefs Barry Mauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
15. Representative Democracy as Kitsch, and Artificial Intelligence’s Promise of Emancipation Marius C. Silaghi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
16. Subjectivation, Modernity, and Hypermodernity Alain Touraine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
17. Toward a New Global? Hatem N. Akil and Simone Maddanu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 402
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
Keywords: Global Modernity; Modernisation; Pandemic; Direct Democracy; Ecology and Science

eBook

Published: February 22, 2022
ISBN: 9789048553921