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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
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Global modernity and social contestation. ISBN 9781473905658. Published by SAGE in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.