Organic Farming in Late Modernity: At the Frontier of Modernity or Opposing Modernity?

Book Introduction: “Understanding Youth in Late Modernity

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Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Global Modernity? Modernity in an Age of Global Capitalism

This article offers the concept of ‘global modernity’ (in the singular) as a way to understand the contemporary world. It suggests that the concept helps overcome the teleology implicit in a term such as globalization, while it also recognizes global difference and conflict, which are as much characteristics of the contemporary world as tendencies toward unity and homogenization. These differen...

The modernity mess

When we had the good fortune to study the Klasies River Mouth Cave remains at the South African Museum in 1989, the isolated partial zygomatic KRM 16651 presented us with a morphometric challenge. The face of the bone appeared quite large, but only a small portion of the inferior border was preserved, and that mostly under the temporal process. No measuring points allowed standard comparisons t...