glimpse life at the tail end of the Meiji era, a unique transitional period when Japan had one foot planted firmly in scientific modernity and one lingering in its premodern traditions. #japan #meijiera #taishoera #1900s #history #archival #rarefootage #earlymodern #modernization #westernization

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oldruyyep25wb2iz63u5tm3f/post/3lj5wwg65cc22

> .. the mythology of unidirectional historical progress and inevitability of westernization for “barbarians” provided an ideological ground for #neoliberal experiments not only in the former Soviet states but around the globe. It is this interest in the global hegemony of the ideology of #westernization that led me first to the doctoral program in #CriticalMediaStudies at the University of Colorado at Boulder..
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/04/28/zelensky-celebrity-populist-pinochet-neoliberal/
#Ukraine #Zelensky #OlgaBaysha #NatylieBaldwin #Maidan