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Theorizing Modern Society As An Inverted Reality: How Critical Theory And Indigenous Critiques Of Globalization Must Learn From Each Other, Asafa Jalata

Asafa Jalata

To examine whether indigenous critiques of globalization and critical theories of modernity are compatible, and how they can complement each other so as to engender more realistic theories of modern society as inherently constructive and destructive, along with practical strategies to strengthen modernity as a culturally transformative project, as opposed to the formal modernization processes that rely on and reinforce modern societies as structures of social inequality.