History and Competitive Temporalities
Duara, Prasenjit
History and Competitive Temporalities - 2012.
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Narratives of the past are perhaps necessary in all collectivities that seek to constitute themselves as such. Before the modern nation-state, however, these narratives not only embedded differences and contestations, they also bore a relationship to a universal or cosmological time and ideals. The emergence of the modern disenchanted polity converged with the rise of competitive capitalist states which viewed all resources and bio-power in its territory as susceptible to mobilization. The reified idea of bounded, linear histories of the state, nation and civilization was crucial for this mobilization. A good case can be made that the most significant Eurasian historical developments were circulatory and shared. This paper looks at East Asian historicities from a circulatory perspective showing the pathways through which global and regional circulatory forces were converted into tunneled histories of sovereign nations engaged in aggressively competitive relations with each other.
History and Competitive Temporalities - 2012.
67
Narratives of the past are perhaps necessary in all collectivities that seek to constitute themselves as such. Before the modern nation-state, however, these narratives not only embedded differences and contestations, they also bore a relationship to a universal or cosmological time and ideals. The emergence of the modern disenchanted polity converged with the rise of competitive capitalist states which viewed all resources and bio-power in its territory as susceptible to mobilization. The reified idea of bounded, linear histories of the state, nation and civilization was crucial for this mobilization. A good case can be made that the most significant Eurasian historical developments were circulatory and shared. This paper looks at East Asian historicities from a circulatory perspective showing the pathways through which global and regional circulatory forces were converted into tunneled histories of sovereign nations engaged in aggressively competitive relations with each other.
Réseaux sociaux