Download or read book Emancipations, Modern and Postmodern written by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1992-11-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term emancipation is being increasingly used in recent years, possibly reflecting, suggests Nederveen Pieterse, the limitations of class analysis in the face of collective actions which are not reducible to class, and the limitations of postmodern discourse which impairs differentiation among types of collective action. This book is also published as volume 23, issue 3 of Development and Change.