{"title":"THE EASTERN MARGINS OF EMPIRE","authors":"Manuela Boatcă","doi":"10.1080/09502380601162571","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Equating modernization with Westernization has historically been one of the strategies with the help of which the development of entire world regions has been programmatically defined as “catching up with the West”. As a result, structural problems that accounted for incongruities with the postulated model in particular countries were explained (away) as economic, institutional or cultural lags to be overcome by faithful application of development policies mandated by the Euro-American core. Using the example of the clash between Western global designs and Romanian local history both at the end of the 19th century and in the post-socialist era, the epistemological premises of the “European patent on modernity” are examined with respect to their consequences for the conceptualization of modernity in the periphery.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"368 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09502380601162571","citationCount":"16","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cultural Studies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380601162571","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ANTHROPOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Equating modernization with Westernization has historically been one of the strategies with the help of which the development of entire world regions has been programmatically defined as “catching up with the West”. As a result, structural problems that accounted for incongruities with the postulated model in particular countries were explained (away) as economic, institutional or cultural lags to be overcome by faithful application of development policies mandated by the Euro-American core. Using the example of the clash between Western global designs and Romanian local history both at the end of the 19th century and in the post-socialist era, the epistemological premises of the “European patent on modernity” are examined with respect to their consequences for the conceptualization of modernity in the periphery.
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Cultural Studies is an international journal which explores the relation between cultural practices, everyday life, material, economic, political, geographical and historical contexts. It fosters more open analytic, critical and political conversations by encouraging people to push the dialogue into fresh, uncharted territory. It also aims to intervene in the processes by which the existing techniques, institutions and structures of power are reproduced, resisted and transformed. Cultural Studies understands the term "culture" inclusively rather than exclusively, and publishes essays which encourage significant intellectual and political experimentation, intervention and dialogue.
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