Collective Action and Political Transformations

The Entangled Experiences in Brazil, South Africa and Europe

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvAurea Mota,Peter Wagner

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This book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but arrives at a more optimistic diagnosis of our time by rethinking the political from the angle of the experiences with progressive and conservative collective action in different parts of the globe: Brazil, South Africa and Europe. By doing so, it contributes a critical perspective to the debate about the possible impact of parts of the Global South for positive social and political developments worldwide.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-02-16
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474442978

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Aurea Mota is Associate Researcher at the Center for the Study of Culture, Politics, and Society (CECUPS) at the University of Barcelona. Her first book was published by the Latin Americana Research Council of Social Science (CLACSO). Peter Wagner is Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. His publications include The Trouble with Democracy (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), Modernity as Experience and Interpretation (Polity Press, 2008), A History and Theory of the Social Sciences (Sage, 2001), Theorising Modernity (Sage, 2001) and A Sociology of Modernity (Routledge, 1994).

ForewordCollective Action and Political Transformation: An Introduction1. Politics and Modernity under Contemporary ConditionsPart I: Trajectories of Modernity: How We Arrived At Where We Are2. Historical Interpretations of Modernity and Their Trajectories3. An Asymmetrically Consolidated Modernity4. Transformations of Modernity through Critique and ContestationPart II: Freedom, Equality, Solidarity5. Democracy and Capitalism6. Inclusion and Exclusion7. Political Equality and Social InequalityPart III: Enlarging the Scope of Political Action8. The Amazon, the Rhino and the Blue Sky over the Ruhr9. Violence, Autonomy and Everyday Life in DemocraciesPart IV: Rethinking the Possibilities of Political Agency10. Democracy in Transformation11. Entangled Histories, Possible Futures – South and NorthNotesReferences

What is the future of collective political action when democracies have been reduced to systems for aggregating individual opinions? Mota and Wagner answer this critical question of our age with a rich comparative analytics of globalisation. This is a timely and important book which makes a compelling argument for the retrieval of consent grounded in institutions which are sensitive to the specificity of conflict.