Global Modernity and Social Contestation

Breno Bringel holds a PhD at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain), where he has also taught. He was also previously a visiting scholar in several universities in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, France, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. He currently teaches at the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the Rio de Janeiro State University (IESP-UERJ), Brazil. He is member of the Board of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements (RC-47) and editor in chief of Dados - Revista de Ciências Sociais. Bringel is author of several works in Portuguese, Spanish, French and English on social movements, internationalism and Latin American politics and society. His latest books are: Movimentos sociais na era global (edited with Maria da Gloria Gohn, Rio de Janeiro: Vozes, 2012) and O MST e o internacionalismo contemporâneo (Rio de Janeiro: Eduerj, 2014). José Mauricio Domingues obtained a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was previously a visiting scholar in several universities, in Argentina, Britain, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Israel, Mexico and Spain. He currently teaches at the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the Rio de Janeiro State University (IESP-UERJ), Brazil. Domingues is a member of the board of ISA RC16 (Sociological Theory) and ISA WG02 (Historical and Comparative Sociology). He is also author of several books on sociological theory and modernity, including: Global Modernity, Development, and Contemporary Civilization: towards a Renewal of Critical Theory (New York/London: Routledge, 2012); Latin American and Contemporary Modernity: a Sociological Interpretation (New York/London: Routledge, 2008); Modernity Reconstructed (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006); Social Creativity, Collective Subjectivity and Contemporary Modernity (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press and New York: Saint Martin’s Press/Palgrave, 2000) and Sociological Theory and Collective Subjectivity (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press and New York: Saint Martin’s Press/Palgrave, 2000) .

This is a truly global and politically challenging book, bringing together top level researchers and sharply tackling its themes. People from every corner of the planet and from all walks in the social sciences will surely profit from reading it.

• 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