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African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity : Past Oppression, Future Justice? / Peter Wagner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Annual of European and Global Studies : AEGSPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) : 2 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474400404
  • 9781474400411
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.4 23
LOC classification:
  • CB430
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I Reconstructing the History of Atlantic Modernity -- 1 The American Divergence, the Modern Western World and the Paradigmatisation of History -- 2 The Limits of Recognition: History, Otherness and Autonomy -- 3 On Being in Time: Modern African Elites and the Historical Challenge to Claims for Alternative and Multiple Modernities -- 4 The Sublime Dignity of the Dictator:1 Republicanism and the Return of Dictatorship in Political Modernity -- 5 The Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment: Between Reform and Revolution -- Part II Comparing Trajectories of Modernity in the South -- 6 Inconsistencies between Social-democratic Discourses and Neo-liberal Institutional Development in Chile and South Africa: a Comparative Analysis of the Post-authoritarian Periods1 -- 7 HIV/AIDS Policies and Modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a Comparative Critical Analysis -- 8 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 -- 9 An Unsettled Past as a Political Resource -- 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 -- 11 The Student Movement in Chile 2011-12: Rearming the Critique of Capitalism -- 12 Indignation and Claims for Economic Sovereignty in Europe and the Americas: Renewing the Project of Control over Production -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index
Summary: Firmly links the history of Europe to world history, situating European modernity in its global contextAfrican, 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I Reconstructing the History of Atlantic Modernity -- 1 The American Divergence, the Modern Western World and the Paradigmatisation of History -- 2 The Limits of Recognition: History, Otherness and Autonomy -- 3 On Being in Time: Modern African Elites and the Historical Challenge to Claims for Alternative and Multiple Modernities -- 4 The Sublime Dignity of the Dictator:1 Republicanism and the Return of Dictatorship in Political Modernity -- 5 The Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment: Between Reform and Revolution -- Part II Comparing Trajectories of Modernity in the South -- 6 Inconsistencies between Social-democratic Discourses and Neo-liberal Institutional Development in Chile and South Africa: a Comparative Analysis of the Post-authoritarian Periods1 -- 7 HIV/AIDS Policies and Modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a Comparative Critical Analysis -- 8 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 -- 9 An Unsettled Past as a Political Resource -- 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 -- 11 The Student Movement in Chile 2011-12: Rearming the Critique of Capitalism -- 12 Indignation and Claims for Economic Sovereignty in Europe and the Americas: Renewing the Project of Control over Production -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index

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Firmly links the history of Europe to world history, situating European modernity in its global contextAfrican, 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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