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Firmly links the history of Europe to world history, situating European modernity in its global context
- Analyses the emergence of Atlantic modernity
- Compares Atlantic modernity to aspects of contemporary Southern modernity, focusing on Brazil, Chile and South Africa
- Explores the dynamics of contemporary modernity worldwide, looking at the relationship between past oppression and injustice and expectations for future freedom and justice
African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity asks why, from some moment onwards, ‘Europe’ and ‘the rest of the world’ entered into a particular relationship. This relationship was not merely one of domination but one that was conceived as a kind of superiority; more specifically, as an ‘advance’ in historical time.
Table of contents
Introduction
Peter Wagner
Part I. Reconstructing the history of Atlantic modernity
1. The American divergence, the modern Western world, and the paradigmatisation of history
Aurea Mota
2. The limits of recognition: history, otherness and autonomy
Angela Lorena Fuster Peirò and Gerard Rosich
3. On being in time: modern African elites and the historical challenge to claims for alternative and multiple modernities
Jacob Dlamini
4. The sublime dignity of the dictator: republicanism and the return of dictatorship in political modernity
Andreas Kalyvas
5. The Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment: between reform and revolution
Alice Soares Guimarães
Part II. Comparing trajectories of modernity in the South
6. Inconsistencies between social-democratic discourses and neo-liberal institutional practices in Chile and South Africa: a comparative analysis of the post-authoritarian periods
Rommy Morales Olivares
7. HIV/AIDS policies and modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a comparative critical analysis
José Katito
8. Land and restitution in comparative perspective: analysing the evidence of right to land for black rural communities in Brazil and South Africa
Joyce Gotlib
Part III. Claims for justice in the history of modernity and in its present
9. An unsettled past as a political resource
Svjetlana Nedimović
10. Injustice at both ends: pre-and-post-apartheid literary approaches to injustice, sentiment and humanism in the work of C. Louis Leipoldt, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and the film ‘Invictus’
Riaan Oppelt
11. The student movement in Chile 2011–2012: rearming the critique of capitalism
Beatriz Silva Pinochet
12. Indignation and claims for economic sovereignty in Europe and the Americas: renewing the project of control over production
David Casassas, Sérgio Franco, Bru Laín, Edgar Manjarín, Rommy Morales Olivares, Samuel Sadian and Beatriz Silva Pinochet