@article{ref1,
title="1. Toward a history on equal terms: a discussion of provincializing europe",
journal="History and theory",
year="2008",
author="Dietze, Carola",
volume="47",
number="1",
pages="69-84",
abstract="This essay is a critical discussion of Dipesh Chakrabarty's book Provincializing Europe as well as a first sketch of a History on Equal Terms. After giving a short summary of Provincializing Europe, I first argue, against chakrabarty, that there is no necessary connection between the discipline of history and the metanarratives of modernity. To the contrary: the founding idea of the discipline of history was a turn against such grand narratives. With his attempt to deconstruct the narratives of the European Enlightenment and of modernity, Chakrabarty therefore has to be regarded as a thinker of radical historicism rather than as a critic of the discipline of history. Second, I criticize the use of the term “modernity” in Provincializing Europe and the concept of modernity in general. Instead of a deconstruction of the discipline of history, I propose a deconstruction of the concept of modernity. This could open up the way for a History on Equal Terms situated within the discipline of history, that is, a historiography that would—just as Chakrabarty rightly demands—in principle pay the same attention to and expect relevant results from any region in the world, depending only on the focus of research.<p />",
language="",
issn="0018-2656",
doi="10.1111/j.1468-2303.2008.00437.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2303.2008.00437.x"
}