Collective Action and Political Transformations: The Entangled Experiences in Brazil, South Africa and Europe
Aurea Mota
Apr 2019 · Edinburgh University Press
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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.
About the author
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).
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