Global modernity and social contestation. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Breno M. Bringel, Jose Mauricio Domingues.
• Editors: Bringel, Breno M; Domingues, José Maurício
• Other Names: International Sociological Association.
• Contents: Introduction - Breno Bringel and José Mauricio Domingues; Part I: Rethinking modernity through social contestation; Modernity and critique: elements of a world-sociology - Peter Wagner; The global transition and the challenge to social sciences - Sujata Patel; Modernity and the violence of global accumulation: the ethnic question in China - Chun Lin; Demystifying modernity: In defence of a singular and normative ideal - G. Aloysius; Vicissitudes and potentialities of critical theory - José Mauricio Domingues; Part II: Rethinking social contestation through modernity; The global age: a social movement perspective - Geoffrey Pleyers; Social movements and contemporary modernity: internationalism and patterns of global contestation - Breno Bringel; Global modernity, social criticism and the local intelligibility of contestation in Mozambique - Elisio Macamo; Globalised modernity, contestations and revolutions: the cases of Egypt and Tunisia - Sarah ben Néfissa; Modernity, cultural diversity and social contestation - Luis Tapia; Part III: Borders of modernity and frontiers of exclusion: rights, citizenship and contestation in comparative perspective; Half-positions and social contestation: on the dynamics of exclusionary integration - Craig Browne; Abyssal lines and contestation in the construction of Modern Europe: a de-colonial perspective of the Spanish case - Heriberto Cairo and Keina Espiñeira; From international legality to local struggle: how and why human rights matters to social movements in Argentine democracy - Gabriela Delamata; Social Contestation and Substantive Citizenship: Popular Mobilization in South Africa’s Modern State - Marcelle Dawson;
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.484; Social movements
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781473905658
• Related ISBNs: 9781446295748; 9781446295755
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