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Prophets Facing Backwards: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India

Prophets Facing Backwards: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India against animals, who are no longer kept in a field by barbed wire but in a box barely as large as their bodies: “Having killed and tortured each other enough, the people of the center [that’s us] now take a break as they concentrate on killing and torturing animals.” Netz writes with elegant simplicity. Most analyses of modernity are plugged with obscure words, long sentences. This book is plain, it is angry, it is very moving. — Ian Hacking doi 10.1215/0961754x-2006-036 Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 176 pp. Why has the age of globalization also been an era of ethnocide? Arjun Appadurai’s answer begins from the thought that modern national sovereignty always presupposes the idea of “some sort of ethnic genius.” Globalization threatens this idea by blurring the lines between Us and Them, increasing uncertainty about the meaning of national belonging. Appadurai suggests that ethnocide is especially likely when a small ethnic minority is seen by a large majority as an obstacle to “a pure and untainted national ethnos.” If the minority were gone, the nation would be complete. Hence the “fear of small http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Prophets Facing Backwards: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India

Common Knowledge , Volume 13 (1) – Jan 1, 2007

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© 2007 by Duke University Press
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0961-754X
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10.1215/0961754x-2006-038
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against animals, who are no longer kept in a field by barbed wire but in a box barely as large as their bodies: “Having killed and tortured each other enough, the people of the center [that’s us] now take a break as they concentrate on killing and torturing animals.” Netz writes with elegant simplicity. Most analyses of modernity are plugged with obscure words, long sentences. This book is plain, it is angry, it is very moving. — Ian Hacking doi 10.1215/0961754x-2006-036 Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 176 pp. Why has the age of globalization also been an era of ethnocide? Arjun Appadurai’s answer begins from the thought that modern national sovereignty always presupposes the idea of “some sort of ethnic genius.” Globalization threatens this idea by blurring the lines between Us and Them, increasing uncertainty about the meaning of national belonging. Appadurai suggests that ethnocide is especially likely when a small ethnic minority is seen by a large majority as an obstacle to “a pure and untainted national ethnos.” If the minority were gone, the nation would be complete. Hence the “fear of small

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