Abstract

DUBE, Saurabh. Maps of Modernity: Time-Space Disciplines.Translated byMaría Capetillo Lozano. Estud. Asia Áfr. [online]. 2017, vol.52, n.3, pp.493-534. ISSN 2448-654X.  https://doi.org/10.24201/eaa.v52i3.2255.

This essay is cast as a personal narrative. It unravels how I arrived at inklings and intimations of time and space, familiar and strange, as part of a study that explores modernity, the disciplines, and their interplay. Based in anthropology, history, and social-political theory, the essay carefully considers the contradictions and contentions that run through subaltern studies and decolonial perspectives. Together, I explore routine portrayals of homogeneous time (that are yet founded on inaugural, spatial ruptures) as bound to antinomian blueprints of social space (which nonetheless entail a singular, temporal hierarchy).

Keywords : modernity; temporality; spatiality; subalternity; decoloniality.