The Modernity Bluff

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Author	: Sasha Newell
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages	: 319
Release	: 2012-06-28
ISBN-10	: 9780226575193
ISBN-13	: 0226575195
Rating	: 4/5 (93 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis The Modernity Bluff by : Sasha Newell

Book excerpt: Introduction -- Enregistering modernity, bluffing criminality : how Nouchi speech reinvented the nation -- Bizness and "blood brothers" : the moral economy of crime -- Faire le show : masculinity and the performative success of waste -- Fashioning alterity : masking, metonymy, and otherworld origins -- Paris is hard like a rock : migration and the spatial hierarchy of global relations -- Counterfeit belongings : branding the Ivoirian political crisis -- Conclusion : modernity as bluff.

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