Non-Western time studies only matter as contrast cases for modernization theory

Evidence

One may conjecture, with sufficient empirical plausibility, that wherever processes of modernization occur they will bring in train a corresponding transformation of concepts of time. A systematic analysis of premodern or non-European cultures in which modernization processes have not yet transpired is not required for this enterprise. I will therefore only make use of related ethnological and historical studies of time to the extent that they help illuminate, by way of contrast, the change in the temporal structures and perspectives of modernity. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 144

Categorization

• XREF: Boundary-setting about scope of a theory of modernity echoes the reader’s own constrained corpus approach. — connects to: Modernization theory pathologized resistance to Western influence as laggard traditionalism, not rational choice — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 262

Broader Connections

• Modernization theory pathologized resistance to Western influence as laggard traditionalism, not rational choice #corroborates (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 262