Abstract: This paper addresses some of the issues raised by thinking about social change, personal life and gender relations in both European and Asian contexts. In particular it is framed as a response to the Eurocentrism of much contemporary theorizing on modernity and the gaps or lacunae in attempts to counter this. While there are a number of relevant academic discussions on modernity and /or intimacy they are taking place in separate intellectual arenas so that connections between them are not always made. Here I pull out some strands of these arguments, focusing on the work of two scholars, Gurminder Bhambra and Chang Kyung-Sup, to raise questions about how we imagine and theorize modernity, gender and intimacy from our differing locations and how we might do so more productively and without taking western modernity as a benchmark against which the rest of the world is compared.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-06-30
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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