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).

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsContributors1. Finding one's way in global social spacePeter Wagner2. Does the world have a spatio-political form? PreliminariesGerard Rosich3. The BRICS countries: time and space in moral narratives of developmentCláudio Costa Pinheiro4. Russia between East, West and North: Comments on the history of moral mappingMaxim Khomyakov5. Digging for class: thoughts on the writing of a global history of social distinctionJacob Dlamini6. North–South and the question of recognition: a constellation saturated with tensionsÀ. Lorena Fuster7. On spaces and experiences: modern displacements, interpretations and universal claimsAurea Mota8. The South as exileNathalie Karagiannis

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