Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey

Alev Cinar

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 14
• What would an Islamic modernism look like? The question is a pressing one, as cultures rebel against modernity in its almost exclusively European form... Lees meer

Modernity at Large

Arjun Appadurai

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 1
• Examines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world. The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea express... Lees meer

Small Nation, Global Cinema

Mette Hjort

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 15
• Small Nation, Global Cinema engages the effects of globalization from the perspective of small nations. Focusing her study on the specific cultural co... Lees meer

Hong Kong

Ackbar Abbas

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 2
• A consideration of what the culture of Hong Kong tells us about the state of the world at the fin-de-siècle. On June 30, 1997, Hong Kong as we know it... Lees meer

Abiding by Sri Lanka

Qadri Ismail

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 16
• The lack of peace in Sri Lanka is commonly portrayed as a consequence of a violent, ethnonationalist conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the T... Lees meer

Spaces of Their Own

Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 4
• An exploration of women's public expression--in China and beyond. How are the public and political lives of Chinese women constrained by states and ec... Lees meer

Electronic Elsewheres

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 17
• Media do not simply portray places that already exist; they actually produce them. In exploring how world populations experience "place" through media... Lees meer

Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey

Alev Cinar

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 14
• What would an Islamic modernism look like? The question is a pressing one, as cultures rebel against modernity in its almost exclusively European form... Lees meer

Black Body

Radhika Mohanram

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 6
• From Algeria to the Antipodes, the female black body, when viewed through the colonial lens, represents all that is dangerous and unknown in an alien ... Lees meer