Unbecoming Modern

Saurabh Dube is Professor of History, Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico City. Ishita Banerjee-Dube is Professor, Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico City.

Coloniality, Modernity, Decoloniality: A New Introduction to the Second Edition. Preface 1. Introduction: Critical Questions of Colonial Modernities 2. Reading a Silence: The “Indian” in the Era of Zapatismo 3. Between Anthropology and History: Manuel Gamio and Mexican Anthropological Modernity, 1916—1935 4. Mapping Oppositions: Enchanted Spaces and Modern Places 5. Postmodern Geographies of the U.S. South 6. Orientalism, Anti-Orientalism, Relativism 7. Henry S. Maine: History and Antiquity in Law 8. Uncertain Dominance: The Colonial State and Its Contradictions 9. World-System and “Trans”-Modernity 10. Eurocentrism, Modern Knowledges, and the “Natural” Order of Global Capital 11. The Social Sciences, Epistemic Violence, and the Problem of the “Invention of the Other” 12. The Enduring Enchantment (Or the Epistemic Privilege of Modernity and Where To Go from Here)