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Hi:
What does "truth games" mean in the following passage? It is from the book Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity by Scot-Aghaie and Marashi, p. 301:
One of the answers to the question of why Israeli scholars have shunned incorporating Israel into their research on Middle East societies is to be found in the disciplinary, coercive role of the politics of Western modernity within the Jewish state. “Nation-states,” as Dipesh Chakrabarty reminds us, “have the capacity to enforce their truth games, and universities, their critical distance
notwithstanding, are part of the battery of institutions complicit in this process.”
Many thanks.
What does "truth games" mean in the following passage? It is from the book Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity by Scot-Aghaie and Marashi, p. 301:
One of the answers to the question of why Israeli scholars have shunned incorporating Israel into their research on Middle East societies is to be found in the disciplinary, coercive role of the politics of Western modernity within the Jewish state. “Nation-states,” as Dipesh Chakrabarty reminds us, “have the capacity to enforce their truth games, and universities, their critical distance
notwithstanding, are part of the battery of institutions complicit in this process.”
Many thanks.
