Disenchanted Modernities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disenchanted Modernities write by Tobias Haller. This book was released on 2023-04. Disenchanted Modernities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mega-Infrastructure Projects (MIPs) represent a central element of globalized development. MIPs like the Chinese driven `Belt and Road Initiative' (BRI) include large-scale agrarian, road, rail, port and energy networks. They are complex ventures involving international capital and multiple stakeholders. Disenchanted Modernities presents 16 case studies showing that the promise of a sustainable modern development by MIPs leave many local users disenchanted: They don't profit form the MIPs but lose access to their resources often held in common. The book describes the strategies of states and companies as well as local responses to MIPs in Asia, Africa, Americas and Europe.
Disenchanting India
Disenchanting India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disenchanting India write by Johannes Quack. This book was released on 2011-11-22. Disenchanting India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. India is frequently represented as the quintessential land of religion. Johannes Quack challenges this representation through an examination of the contemporary Indian rationalist organizations: groups who affirm the values and attitudes of atheism, humanism, or free-thinking. Quack shows the rationalists' emphasis on maintaining links to atheism and materialism in ancient India and outlines their strong ties to the intellectual currents of modern European history. At the heart of Disenchanting India is an ethnographic study of the organization ''Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti'' (Organization for the Eradication of Superstition), based in the Indian State of Maharashtra. Quack gives a nuanced account of the Organization's specific "mode of unbelief." He describes the group's efforts to encourage a scientific temper and to combat beliefs and practices that it regards as superstitious. Quack also shows the role played by rationalism in the day-to-day lives of the Organization's members, as well as the Organization's controversial position within Indian society. Disenchanting India contributes crucial insight into the nature of rationalism in the intellectual life and cultural politics of India.
Eranos Yearbook 69: 2006/2007/2008
Eranos Yearbook 69: 2006/2007/2008 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eranos Yearbook 69: 2006/2007/2008 write by John van Praag. This book was released on . Eranos Yearbook 69: 2006/2007/2008 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Eranos Yearbook covers the events of the first three years since the relaunching of the Eranos Foundation in 2006. The themes of the conferences – ‘The Modernities of East and West’ or ‘Perspectives on Violence and Aggression’, for example – reflect both the long and prestigious tradition of the Eranos Foundation and the relevance of Eranos to the present. The prominent international speakers succeeded in making fruitful contributions in addressing some of the most pressing questions of our times. The conferences were held under the presidency of John van Praag (2005-2009), to whom the Eranos Foundation is indebted for having conducted this major endeavor. Contents: 2006 Eranos Conference Eranos Reborn 2007 Eranos Conference The Modernities of East and West 2007 Fetzer at Eranos Conference Emerging Images of Humanity – Exploring Conscious Participation in Emergent Processes 2008 Eranos Conference Perspectives on Violence and Aggression A Presentation from the 2008 Pacifica at Eranos Conference The Legacy Tour of Zürich and Eranos, Ascona, Switzerland
Our Time is Now
Our Time is Now - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Time is Now write by Julie Gibbings. This book was released on 2020-06-18. Our Time is Now available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An illustration of how indigenous and non-indigenous actors deployed concepts of time in their conflicts over race and modernity in postcolonial Guatemala.
Capitalism Magic Thailand
Capitalism Magic Thailand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capitalism Magic Thailand write by Peter A Jackson. This book was released on 2021-12-13. Capitalism Magic Thailand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By studying intersections among new cults of wealth, ritually empowered amulets and professional spirit mediumship—which have emerged together in Thailand’s dynamic religious field in recent decades—Capitalism Magic Thailand explores the conditions under which global modernity produces new varieties of enchantment. Bruno Latour’s account of modernity as a condition fractured between rationalizing ideology and hybridizing practice is expanded to explain the apparent paradox of new forms of magical ritual emerging alongside religious fundamentalism across a wide range of Asian societies. In Thailand, novel and increasingly popular varieties of ritual now form a symbolic complex in which originally distinct cults centred on Indian deities, Chinese gods and Thai religious and royal figures have merged in commercial spaces and media sites to sacralize the market and wealth production. Emerging within popular culture, this complex of cults of wealth, amulets and spirit mediumship is supported by all levels of Thai society, including those at the acme of economic and political power. New theoretical frameworks are presented in analyses that challenge the view that magic is a residue of premodernity, placing the dramatic transformations of cultic ritual centre stage in modern Thai history. It is concluded that modern enchantment arises at the confluence of three processes: neoliberal capitalism’s production of occult economies, the auraticizing effects of technologies of mass mediatization, and the performative force of ritual in religious fields where practice takes precedence over doctrine.
