TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akil,Hatem N.
AU  - Maddanu,Simone
AU  - Yassine,Rachid Id
AU  - Touraine,Alain
AU  - Sustam,Engin
AU  - Silaghi,Marius C.
AU  - Nomiya,Daishiro
AU  - Mongili,Alessandro
AU  - Mesa,Beatriz
AU  - Mauer,Barry
AU  - Jacobson,David
AU  - Fatima,Shumaila
AU  - Farro,Antimo Luigi
AU  - Esu,Aide
AU  - Dobbins,Elizabeth G.
AU  - Darwish,Housamedden
AU  - Cooper,Richard
AU  - Cadeddu,Lucio
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TI  - Global modernity from coloniality to pandemic: a cross-disciplinary perspective 
SN  - 904855392X
AV  - CB358 .G563 2022
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - Global Modernity, Modernisation, Pandemic, Direct Democracy, Ecology and Science
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; 1. Connecting Modernities --; Part I Modernity as We Know It --; 2. Technology and the Texture of Modernity --; 3. Math and Modernity: Critical Reflections --; 4. Stranded Modernity --; 5. The (In)Compatibility of Islam with Modernity --; 6. The Missing Body --; Part II Modernity under Fire --; 7. Criticism of "Colonial Modernity" through Kurdish Decolonial Approaches --; 8. Conflicting Modernities: Militarization and Islands --; 9. Project Modernity: From Anticolonialism to Decolonization --; Part III In the Shadow of the Pandemic --; 10. Modernity and Decision-Making for Global Challenges --; 11. Public Health Confronts Modernity in the Shadow of the Pandemic --; 12. Human Identity and COVID-19 --; Part IV Imagining New Global Frameworks --; 13. Environmentalism: A Challenge to Modernity --; 14. The Cognitive Immune System --; 15. Representative Democracy as Kitsch, and Artificial Intelligence's Promise of Emancipation --; 16. Subjectivation, Modernity, and Hypermodernity --; 17. Toward a New Global? --; Index; 2; b
N2  - This book poses questions about viewing modernity today from the vantage point of traditionally disparate disciplines engaging scholars from sociology to science, philosophy to robotics, medicine to visual culture, mathematics to cultural theory, et cetera, including a contribution by Alain Touraine. From coloniality to pandemic, modernity can now represent a global necessity in which awareness of human and environmental crises, injustices, and inequality would create the possibility of a modernity-to-come
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