Note from the Editor

Abstract

The theme of this issue is Modernity and Marginality. The first of these terms ‘modernity’ is protean, as versatile as it is common. Along with its affiliates – multiple modernity, counter-modernity, post-modernity, etc. – it comprises a conspectus of ideas that represent arguably one of the most fundamental struggles concerning the visions for our world. Its dominant understanding, as a condition of time and an aspiration of life, constitutes a view of the world which has spawned myriad marginalities.