Global Modernity and Social Contestation

A collection of cutting edge essays from leading international names in social theory, social movement studies, political sociology and social contestation.

Introduction - Breno Bringel & José Mauricio DominguesPART I: RETHINKING MODERNITY THROUGH SOCIAL CONTESTATIONChapter 1: Modernity and Critique - Elements of a World-Sociology - Peter WagnerChapter 2: The Global Transition and the Challenge to Social Sciences - Sujata PatelChapter 3: Modernity and the Violence of Global Accumulation - The Ethnic Question in China - Chun LinChapter 4: Demystifying Modernity - In Defence of a Singular and Normative Ideal - G. AloysiusChapter 5: Vicissitudes and Potentialities of Critical Theory - José Mauricio DominguesPART II: RETHINKING SOCIAL CONTESTATION THROUGH MODERNITYChapter 6: The Global Age - A Social Movement Perspective - Geoffrey PleyersChapter 7: Social Movements and Contemporary Modernity - Internationalism and Patterns of Global Contestation - Breno BringelChapter 8: Global Modernity, Social Criticism and the Local Intelligibility of Contestation in Mozambique - Elisio MacamoChapter 9: Globalised Modernity, Contestations and Revolutions - The Cases of Egypt and Tunisia - Sarah ben NéfissaChapter 10: Modernity, Cultural Diversity and Social Contestation - Luis TapiaPART III: BORDERS OF MODERNITY AND FRONTIERS OF EXCLUSION - RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND CONTESTATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVEChapter 11: Half-Positions and Social Contestation - On the Dynamics of Exclusionary Integration - Craig BrowneChapter 12: Abyssal Lines and Contestation in the Construction of Modern Europe - A De-colonial Perspective of the Spanish Case - Heriberto Cairo & Keina EspiñeiraChapter 13: From International Legality to Local Struggle - How and Why Human Rights Matters to Social Movements in Argentine Democracy - Gabriela DelamataChapter 14: Social Contestation and Substantive Citizenship - Popular Mobilization in South Africa's Modern State - Marcelle Dawson