Social theory in contemporary Asia
Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously engaged with issues of intimacy, reflexivity and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Routledge
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Routledge studies in social and political thought ;
70. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798323906719 |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Understanding intimacy, re.exivity and identity in contemporary Asia; 1 Contesting intimacy, re.exivity and identity in contemporary social theory; 2 Intimacy, reflexivity and identity in contemporary Asia; 3 Reflexivity and the transformation of gender identity in cosmopolitan Asia; 4 Postmodern Confucianism, 'moral economies' and 'biopolitical otherness' in rede.ning intimacy and identity in Southeast Asia; 5 Sex and 'singlehood' as a source of tension in contemporary Asia
- 6 Cultural production, intimacy and identity: Paradigms of resistance and Islamic orthodoxy in AsiaConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
