James Ferguson and his critique on modernity: Analyzing expectation of modernity

The book review reveals the issue of modernity from James Ferguson’s Expectation of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt which is dismantling and heart-breaking. This well-written and thick seven chapters book is based on Ferguson’s ethnographic fieldwork in Copper...

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Autor principal:	Andi Batara Al Isra
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Publicado:	Hasanuddin University 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d35a4be718564786bb3ef4f195beb1312021-11-08T23:08:54ZJames Ferguson and his critique on modernity: Analyzing expectation of modernity10.31947/etnosia.v6i1.142942527-93192548-9747https://doaj.org/article/d35a4be718564786bb3ef4f195beb1312021-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/etnosia/article/view/14294https://doaj.org/toc/2527-9319https://doaj.org/toc/2548-9747 The book review reveals the issue of modernity from James Ferguson’s Expectation of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt which is dismantling and heart-breaking. This well-written and thick seven chapters book is based on Ferguson’s ethnographic fieldwork in Copperbelt, Zambia, between 1970s-1990s. The book introduced what is called the ethnography of decline, a way of understanding people’s point of view about their own experience of social, cultural, and economic ‘advance’ and ‘decline’. A very hard task for ethnographers since they must deal with the situation instead of working with people. Related to that, Ferguson also explores a concept called ‘abjection’, a process of being thrown (down) aside, expelled or discarded. Using this concept, he claims that modernity is quite similar to colonialism which brings the dichotomy of ‘the west’ and ‘the rest’ where the west is ‘modern’ and the rest is ‘savage’. Thus, globalization of economy brought by modernization has been experienced as abjection and disconnection, leading to a conclusion that modernity is no more than a myth that would never exist. Andi Batara Al IsraHasanuddin UniversityarticleCopperbeltZambiamodernityexpectation of modernityethnography of declineabjectionEthnology. Social and cultural anthropologyGN301-674ENIDEtnosia, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2021)
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description	The book review reveals the issue of modernity from James Ferguson’s Expectation of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt which is dismantling and heart-breaking. This well-written and thick seven chapters book is based on Ferguson’s ethnographic fieldwork in Copperbelt, Zambia, between 1970s-1990s. The book introduced what is called the ethnography of decline, a way of understanding people’s point of view about their own experience of social, cultural, and economic ‘advance’ and ‘decline’. A very hard task for ethnographers since they must deal with the situation instead of working with people. Related to that, Ferguson also explores a concept called ‘abjection’, a process of being thrown (down) aside, expelled or discarded. Using this concept, he claims that modernity is quite similar to colonialism which brings the dichotomy of ‘the west’ and ‘the rest’ where the west is ‘modern’ and the rest is ‘savage’. Thus, globalization of economy brought by modernization has been experienced as abjection and disconnection, leading to a conclusion that modernity is no more than a myth that would never exist.
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James Ferguson and his critique on modernity: Analyzing expectation of modernity

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