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Cover -- Introduction -- Chapter I Anthropology and the Study of Modernity/ies: Past and Present -- Chapter II Conceptual Framework for a Foucauldian Analysis of Modernity and its Others and an Overview of the Present Study -- Part One Economy in Governance and Political Discourse: The European Context -- Chapter III Towards a New Mode of Governance: Re-imagining the Nation as Company in 16th- and 17th-Century Britain -- Chapter IV From National Commerce to Commercial Nation: The Making of a Commercial Society in the 17th Century -- Chapter V From Discourses on Trade to Political Economy: The Emergence of a Science of Government and Public Administration -- Chapter VI Political Economy and the Modern British Nation-State: From Managing the State to Calls for Ac-countable Government -- Part Two Economy in Governance and Political Discourse: The Imperial Common-Wealth -- Chapter VII Economy and the New Imperial Order: Ac-countable Colonial Governance in 19th-Cenutry India -- Chapter VIII Economy and Empire's Civilising Mission: The Project of Indian Improvement -- Part Three Economy in the Emergence of a Nationalist Order: Critical Re-Visions of the Imperial Common-Wealth -- Chapter IX From Accountability to Nationalist Calls to Account: Economy and the Contestation of the Imperial Common-Wealth -- Chapter X The Common-Wealth vs. National Economy: Critiques of British Hegemony and The Emergence of an Alternative Order -- Chapter XI National Economy and the Reconceptualization of Indian Improvement -- Chapter XII Swadeshi and Alternative Approaches to Indian Improvement: From Critique to the Construction of a (post)Colonial Economy -- Part Four Economy and the Emergence of a Postcolonial Order: Cultural and Religious Re-Visions of India.

This article discusses how social class was depicted in Iranian cinema during the Reformist Era between 2001 and 2005 when the government of Mohammad Khatami advocated economic reforms and cultural liberalization. The agenda of the Khatami government was supported by the middle and upper classes who had modernist cultural attitudes and benefitted from these political and economic reforms. The articles also analyzes how reformist ideology operated through films by presenting a positive image of the modernist middle and upper classes while challenging the values of the traditional classes and portraying the lower class as victims of social problems. The findings indicate that the reformists, contrary to their slogans, sought to normalize the values of their supporter classes in Iranian cinema.

Ausgehend von Michel Foucaults Beobachtung, dass die Wissenschaft der politischen Ökonomie eine für die Moderne konstitutive Form der Macht hervorgebracht hat, berücksichtigt diese Studie den imperialen Kontext dieser historischen Wende. Der erste Teil analysiert, wie sich im Kontext des British Empire durch diesen neuen Wissenskorpus ein Dispositiv herausbildete, das neue Identitäten, soziale Praktiken sowie Formen der politischen Intervention und des Widerstands ermöglichte. Der zweite Teil zeigt, wie diese globalen Verflechtungen die Bedingungen für die Entstehung von anti- und postkolonialen Gegendiskursen und -praktiken in Indien geprägt haben. Indem die Studie untersucht, wie die Vorstellungen indischer Eliten von postkolonialer Moderne und damit einhergehende Widerstandspraktiken aus deren Auseinandersetzungen mit global zirkulierenden Diskursen über die politische Ökonomie entstanden sind, zeigt sie die gegenseitige Verflechtung westlicher Moderne und ihrer postkolonialen Alternativen.