Kavita Philip: 2 books
Civilising Natures
Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial South India
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Science, both as a scholarly discipline and as a concept in the popular imagination, was critical to building hegemony in the British Empire. It also inspired alternative ideas of progress by elites and the disenfranchised: these competing spectres continue to haunt postcolonial modernities. Why and...
by Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, Andrew J. Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Both human rights and globalization are powerful ideas and processes, capable of transforming the world in profound ways. Notwithstanding their universal claims, however, the processes are constructed, and they draw their power from the specific cultural and political contexts in which they are constructed....