Collective Action and Political Transformations : : The Entangled Experiences in Brazil, South Africa and Europe / / Aurea Mota, Peter Wagner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Mota, Aurea,; Wagner, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Takes lessons from the Global South to explore the possibilities for positive political action worldwideCollective action in our current global situation is often associated with growing intolerance, xenophobia and exclusion, or it is regarded as incapable of making a real and positive difference in the lives of individuals. This book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but it 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 that the Global South could have for positive social and political developments worldwide.Key FeaturesBased on nuanced historical and comparative analyses of society and politics in three world regions: Latin America, Southern Africa and EuropeParticipates innovatively in the debates in critical political theory about the need to rethink the politicalLinks analytical and normative elements to explain the political as the combination of collective autonomy, problem-oriented reflexivity and a capacity for transformation-oriented interventionFirmly set within the debates in social theory and historical–comparative sociology about varieties of modernity and widens these debates by consciously adopting a world-historical perspective

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- About the Authors -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Collective Action and Political Transformations: An Introduction -- 1 Politics and Modernity under Contemporary Conditions -- Part I Trajectories of Modernity: How We Arrived at Where We Are -- 2 Historical Interpretations of Modernity and Their Trajectories -- 3 An Asymmetrically Consolidated Modernity -- 4 Transformations of Modernity through Critique and Contestation -- Part II Freedom, Equality, Solidarity -- 5 Democracy and Capitalism -- 6 Inclusion and Exclusion -- 7 Political Equality and Social Inequality -- Part III Enlarging the Scope of Political Action -- 8 The Amazon, the Rhino and the Blue Sky over the Ruhr -- 9 Violence, Autonomy and Everyday Life in Democracies -- Part IV Rethinking the Possibilities of Political Agency -- 10 Democracy in Transformation -- 11 Entangled Histories, Possible Futures – South and North -- Notes -- References -- Index