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  • noun Plural form of modernity.

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  • Moreover, as writers associated with such phrases as "multiple modernities" and "alternative modernities" have helped us to see, convergence theories of modernization gave scant analytic attention to the force of local culture and its ability to take up and transform such aspects of modernity as the market society (Goankar).

    Introduction 2008

  • An appeal to "multiple modernities" might have made more sense here.

    Notes on 'Introduction' 2008

  • If he wishes to bring in these modernities, he must empty his wallet of an amount that runs from 10 to 80 convertible pesos.

    Yoani Sanchez: Cubans Abroad Must Pay A Ransom to Bring Home a Toaster 2010

  • But the phrase alternative modernities of course sustains the concept of modernity as a desideratum.

    Afterword: Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism 2008

  • Jager explicitly presents religion as part of modernity; he aligns himself not with tradition but on the contrary with "alternative modernities."

    Afterword: Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism 2008

  • Ritu Birla's book "Stages of Capital: Law, Culture and Market Governance in Late Colonial India" charts the legal institutionalization of 'the market' as an abstract object of governance and places commercial law at center of broader debates about colonial modernities, governmentality, and subject-formation.

    Book panels at Law & Society Mary L. Dudziak 2009

  • White Cross, January-June 1922, reflects a stylistic shift indebted to Malevich and Suprematism, as if to reintegrate into Russian modernity — perhaps to create a rapprochment among the modernities of post War Europe now that, ousted from his leadership in the U.S.S.R. he was now back in Germany to teach at the progressive Bauhaus.

    Kandinsky's Futurity 2009

  • White Cross, January-June 1922, reflects a stylistic shift indebted to Malevich and Suprematism, as if to reintegrate into Russian modernity — perhaps to create a rapprochment among the modernities of post War Europe now that, ousted from his leadership in the U.S.S.R. he was now back in Germany to teach at the progressive Bauhaus.

    Kandinsky's Futurity 2009

  • It represents all of our modernities and artificialities.

    So, Mother Earth Doesn't Like Us Anymore: My Review of The Happening (Spoilers) Anxious Black Woman 2008

  • Feudal snake pit or the quicksand of finely grained modernities, generalizing historical processes from one society to another is one of the most common, and most often failed, attempts to systematize that qualitative epistemology we call history.

    井の中の蛙 » Renaissance Japan » Print 2005

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