PDF-(BOOS)-Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial historywhen many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion corruption and authoritarianismDavid Scott argues the need to reconceptualize the past in order to reimagine a more usable future He describes how prior to independence anticolonialists narrated the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism as romanceas a story of overcoming and vindication of salvation and redemption Scott contends that postcolonial scholarship assumes the same trajectory and that this imposes conceptual limitations He suggests that tragedy may be a more useful narrative frame than romance In tragedy the future does not appear as an uninterrupted movement forward but instead as a slow and sometimes reversible series of ups and downsScott explores the political and epistemological implications of how the past is conceived in relation to the present and future through a reconsideration of C L R Jamess masterpiece of anticolonial history The Black Jacobins first published in 1938 In that book James told the story of Toussaint LOuverture and the making of the Haitian Revolution as one of romantic vindication In the second edition published in the United States in 1963 James inserted new material suggesting that that story might usefully be told as tragedy Scott uses Jamess recasting of The Black Jacobins to compare the relative yields of romance and tragedy In an epilogue he juxtaposes Jamess thinking about tragedy history and revolution with Hannah Arendts in On Revolution He contrasts their uses of tragedy as a means of situating the past in relation to the present in order to derive a politics for a possible future. of colonization, modernity and Modernization school. Historical embededdness of inequalities . Structure of presentation. 1) colonialism and its repercussions (impact) on contemporary development. 2) modernity as European period and culture . Lecture 2. Religious Responses to Modernity. Current . IoE. Survey – published in an 2015 (9000 . espondents. ). 25% of Britons think religion is a force for good in society (some believers included in this category. Lecture 2. Religious Responses to Modernity. Religious Responses to Modernity.  .  . 1 Religious . ferment since the Enlightenment; some . examples.  .  . 2 Religious . resistance to modernity (Fundamentalism). Enlightenment . In . the early 1700s revolutions in both religious and nonreligious thought . transformed . the Western world. These . movements . began in Europe and affected life in the American colonies. . . Grewal. “The Culture of Travel”. The trope of mobility. Mobility. —traveller . vs. native (. romanticism . and . scientific progress). Freedom . vs. . unfreedom. . (. even British women who . Central Planning . PM King’s cabinet included C.D. Howe, a former businessperson who could get factories running. Industry leaders were picked to turn Canada into an industrial war machine. Paying for War. Post-Colonial States . and . the . Struggle . for . Identity . in . the Middle East . since . World War Two. Foreign Policy Research Institute, History Institute for . Teachers:. Understanding the Modern Middle East:. Modernism and the Avantgarde. The crisis of modernity 1. Dissatisfaction with reason. Reason: instrument of freedom → instrument of oppression, policing, terror. . Inhumanity of science and technology (Frankenstein, mad scientist, factory as dystopia, production line, machine, WW1) . Prof Mark Knights. Key questions. Why is it important for modernists to understand the Enlightenment? . What was its legacy and why is that legacy a controversial one? . Isms. : liberalism, socialism, . [5]. RUC, SPRING 2017. PART ONE . MICHEL FOUCAULT. : . WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? . 1 . Today . when a periodical asks its readers a question, it does so in order to collect opinions on some subject about which everyone has an opinion already; there is not much likelihood of learning anything new. In the eighteenth century, editors preferred to question the public on problems that did not yet have solutions. I don't know whether or not that practice was more effective; it was unquestionably more entertaining. . Mark the Text. Circle= Important People. Box= Important Ideas. Underline= Anything that explains those important ideas. A Time of New Ideas. . In . the 1700’s a movement developed in Europe called the . Dr.. Stuart Middleton. October 2018. How the enlightenment ‘made the modern world’. The ‘counter-enlightenment’ and the making of the modern world. Questionable legacies of the enlightenment. Enlightenment and modernity Dr. Stuart Middleton October 2019 How enlightenment ‘made the modern world’ Opposition to enlightenment and the making of the modern world Questionable legacies of enlightenment Religious Responses to Modernity. Current IoE Survey – published in an 2015 (9000 . respondents. ). 25% of Britons think religion is a force for good in society (some believers included in this . category).