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    World-Sociology Beyond Eurocentrism: Considerations on Peter Wagner’s Theory of Modernity2018

    In his recent work Peter Wagner has dealt with understandings of modernity in different world regions. He has expanded the analysis of modern transformations in Europe to parts of the Southern world. This turn in his work has been a response to challenges about the development of Western modernity, including his own earlier arguments. This article explores some features of Wagner’s recent research on the Brazilian, European and South African trajectories of modernity and his proposal for a world-sociology. The aspects of his work that I am especially interested in are: i) the establishment of the Atlantic connection for the ‘enablement’ of the modern transformation in the nineteenth century; ii) the question about the spaces where experiences happen and the interpretation of temporal transformations and historical continuities. As a sociologist who takes a classical approach to the analysis of historical transformations, Wagner has developed a conception of trajectories of modernity using the notion of societal self-understanding to challenge both conceptually and empirically the presuppositions of communality and continuity assumed as guiding ideas to account for difference in the modern world. I explore in this article the advantages of Wagner’s unorthodox sociological perspective that is to propose both a general understanding of autonomy as key features to comprehend historical transformation and to show how reflexivity opens up a variety of ways of being in the world.

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    Collective Action and Political Transformations: the entangled experiences in Brazil, South Africa and Europe2021

    La acción colectiva en nuestra situación global actual suele asociarse con creciente intolerancia, xenofobia y exclusión, o se considera incapaz de generar un cambio real y positivo en la vida de las personas. Este libro reconoce los graves problemas relacionados con la acción colectiva efectiva y significativa. Al hacerlo, aporta una perspectiva crítica al debate sobre el posible impacto que el Sur Global podría tener en el desarrollo social y político positivo a nivel mundial. Es un libro que está basado en análisis históricos y comparativos matizados de la sociedad y la política en tres regiones del mundo: América Latina, África Austral y Europa. Participa de manera innovadora en los debates de la teoría política crítica sobre la necesidad de replantear lo político. Vincula elementos analíticos y normativos para explicar lo político como la combinación de autonomía colectiva, reflexividad orientada a problemas y capacidad para intervenciones orientadas a la transformación. Firmemente enraizado en los debates de la teoría social y la sociología histórico-comparativa sobre las variedades de modernidad y amplía estos debates al adoptar conscientemente una perspectiva histórico-mundial.