Global Modernity and Social Contestation

How can we link contemporary social processes – which have typically been theorized in terms of the concept of modernity – with contemporary social movements, conflicts, and mobilizations which aim at social change? This text: links the social theory of modernity to critical theory and to recent class and citizenship politics as well as to identity politics uses concrete social processes to illustrate theoretical discussion with relevant empirical studies and applies theoretical analysis to different interactions, tensions and possibilities to provide an integrated understanding of global modernity and social contestation includes contributions from distinguished international scholars working in sociological theory and modernity, as well as social movement studies and political contestation, with a strong emphasis on global issues This is a key resource for research in both social theory  and the sociology of modernity, as well as social movements and social contestation, and readers interested in globalization and global studies.   INDICE: Introduction - Breno Bringel and José Mauricio DominguesPart I: Rethinking modernity through social contestationModernity and critique: elements of a world-sociology - Peter WagnerThe global transition and the challenge to social sciences - Sujata PatelModernity and the violence of global accumulation: the ethnic question in China - Chun LinDemystifying modernity: In defence of a singular and normative ideal - Ghana AloysiusVicissitudes and potentialities of critical theory - José Mauricio DominguesPart II: Rethinking social contestation through modernityThe global age: a social movement perspective - Geoffrey PleyersSocial movements and contemporary modernity: internationalism and patterns of global contestation - Breno BringelGlobal modernity, social criticism and the local intelligibility of contestation in Mozambique - Elisio MacamoGlobalised modernity, contestations and revolutions: the cases of Egypt and Tunisia - Sarah ben NéfissaModernity, cultural diversity and social contestation - Luis TapiaPart III: Borders of modernity and frontiers of exclusion: rights, citizenship and contestation in comparative perspectiveHalf-positions and social contestation: on the dynamics of exclusionary integration - Craig BrowneAbyssal lines and contestation in the construction of Modern Europe: a de-colonial perspective of the Spanish case - Heriberto Cairo and Keina EspiñeiraFrom international legality to local struggle: how and why human rights matters to social movements in Argentine democracy - Gabriela DelamataSocial Contestation and Substantive Citizenship: Popular Mobilization in South Africa’s Modern State - Marcelle Dawson

• ISBN: 978-1-4462-9574-8
• Editorial: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 24/01/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
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