African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity: Past Oppression, Future Justice?

ISBN-13: 9781474400404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 208 str.

Peter Wagner; Peter Wagner

Opis

Firmly links the history of Europe to world history, situating European modernity in its global context
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. Towards this end, the volume first analyses the emergence of this Atlantic modernity, then proceeds to compare aspects of contemporary Southern modernity, focusing on Brazil, Chile and South Africa. Finally, it explores the dynamics of contemporary modernity worldwide, looking at the relationship between past oppression and injustice and expectations for future freedom and justice.

Spis treści

Introduction, Peter Wagner; Part I, Reconstructing the history of Atlantic modernity; Chapter 1, Aurea Mota:, The American divergence, the modern Western world, and the paradigmatisation of history; Chapter 2, Angela Lorena Fuster Peirò and Gerard Rosich: The limits of recognition: history, otherness and autonomy; Chapter 3 Jacob Dlamini: On being in time: modern African elites and the historical challenge to claims for alternative and multiple modernities; Chapter 4, Andreas Kalyvas: The sublime dignity of the dictator: republicanism and the return of dictatorship in political modernity; Chapter 5, Alice Soares Guimarães: The Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment: between reform and revolution; Part II Comparing trajectories of modernity in the South, Chapter 6, Rommy Morales Olivares:Inconsistencies between social-democratic discourses and neo-liberal institutional practices in Chile and South Africa: a comparative analysis of the post-authoritarian periods; Chapter 7 José Katito:HIV/AIDS policies and modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a comparative critical analysis; Chapter 8, Joyce Gotlib: Land and restitution in comparative perspective: Analysing the evidence of right to land for black rural communities in Brazil and South Africa; Part III Claims for justice in the history of modernity and in its present; Chapter 9 Svjetlana Nedimović: An unsettled past as a political resource; Chapter 10 Riaan Oppelt: 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’; Chapter 11 Beatriz Silva Pinochet: The student movement in Chile 2011-2012: rearming the critique of capitalism; Chapter 12, David Casassas, Sérgio Franco, Bru Laín, Edgar Manjarín, Rommy Morales Olivares, Samuel Sadian, Beatriz Silva Pinochet: Indignation and claims for economic sovereignty in Europe and the Americas: renewing the project of control over production