Articles liés à Racism, Modernity and Identity: On the Western Front
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Synopsis
The West has a unique civilization, a powerful front of modernity, liberty, democracy and affluence. This volume offers critical perspectives from both inside and outside the cultural and intellectual frontiers of the Western project. The primary focus is on analyzing racism and changing ethnicities in Europe and the US in the context of new forms of global dislocation, economic recession, the resurgence of neo-Fascism, and a widespread sense of the crisis of Western modernity. The chapters assess the value of Marxist perspectives and newer approaches that take "modernity" and "postmodernity" as frameworks for analysis. They also explore how European identities have been continually reconstructed by a cultural repression of the non-Western, whether through colonial discourses, the denial of Asian, Islamic, Judaic and African influences or the effects of Eurocentric conceptions of subjectivity in the psychiatric disciplining of ethnic minorities.
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Quatrième de couverture
′The West′ has a unique civilization, a powerful ′front′ – modernity, liberty, democracy, affluence. This volume offers critical perspectives from both ′inside′ and ′outside′ the cultural and intellectual frontiers of the Western project.
The primary focus is on analysing racism and changing ethnicities in Europe and the US in the context of new forms of global dislocation, economic recession, the resurgence of neo–Fascism, and a widespread sense of the crisis of Western modernity. The chapters assess the value of Marxist perspectives and newer approaches that take ′modernity′ and ′postmodernity′ as frameworks for analysis. They also explore how European identities have been continually reconstructed by a cultural repression of the ′non–Western′, whether through colonial discourses, the denial of Asian, Islamic, Judaic and African influences or the effects of Eurocentric conceptions of subjectivity in the psychiatric disciplining of ethnic minorities.
The chapters are written by some of the most original and influential writers in the field: they include Michel Wieviorka, Howard Winant, Robert Miles, Robert Young, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Sallie Westwood, Ali Rattansi and Cathie Lloyd.
Revue de presse
"[The] strength of this collection is that it does not deliver a reassuring unanimity of opinion." Millennium
"[This book] bring[s] together some of the most original and influential writers on racism and changing ethnicities in the context of recent transformations in Europe, the US and other parts of the globe." Sociology
"This excellent book is a collection of nine uniformly perceptive essays, and deserves a warm welcome." Political Studies
"This book has much to offer. In particular, its attention to the centrality of racism in the construction of western identities and the unpacking of the myths that are integral to the formation of the ′western front′ provide a refreshing analysis of contemporary racisms." Patterns of Prejudice
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