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The author study in this essay the great problem of characterization of the main elements of this enormous mankind project, living in the last five centuries, who is the capitalist modernity. From Marx¿s perspectives, t...

Materie / parole chiave: Modernity; Globalization; Sociology; Political science; Economic geography; Geography; Law

Materie / parole chiave: Historia /América Latina; México

Materie / parole chiave: Ciencias Políticas; General

Austin, como se sabe, toma a existência de um procedimento convencional aceito como condição primeira de felicidade de qualquer performativo. Mas isso coloca um problema, que o filósofo inglês não chega a considera...

Este estudo tem por objetivo discutir as relações entre o esporte e o Futurismo, um dos mais ruidosos, influentes e polêmicos movimentos da vanguarda artística européia no pré Primeira Grande Guerra. Cremos que tal...

Abstract In this Dossier, four scholars reflect on Nicholas Onuf’s leading article, ‘Metaphoricizing modernity’, (re)engaging with – and celebrating – more broadly Onuf’s groundbreaking work from different pl...

This article represents a critical reading of Ellen Meiksins Wood’s book The Origin of Capitalism. In the first part of the article, I present Wood’s thesis concerning the historical origin of capitalism and its poli...

Gellner’s theory of modernity is a complex structure, it matured several decades and during this process he modified some of its elements. The following interpretation of his theory is based on the analysis of three pi...

Exploding development of knowledge and the more and more extended market have required and accompanied the transition from industrial society, of simple modernity, characterized by redistribution of wealth, to postmodern...

The paper focuses on the Latin American perspective on modernity, especially on the Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano’s notion of coloniality. Coloniality is explained as a theoretical framework for critical reflect...

The paper focuses on the Latin American perspective on modernity, especially on the Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano's notion of coloniality. Coloniality is explained as a theoret- ical framework for critical reflecti...

Este artigo discute as contraposições de autores no que se refere à produção do conhecimento e sua disseminação em contextos caracterizados como modernos ou pós-modernos, trazendo uma reflexão sobre questões li...

A systematic typology or comparative analysis of European historical regions does not exist and there is relatively little literature on the topic. The argument in this paper is that a six-fold classification is needed t...

The article discusses political processes in post-Soviet Russia from the perspective of the multiple modernities theory. A study of Russia’s political transformation on the basis of this approach allows us to reconside...

A história da Proclamação da República na periferia setentrional do Império brasileiro (1822-1889), assim como as especificidades de suas consequências culturais na região, ainda carece de análises mais detalhada...

River of tears: country music, memory and modernity in Brasil, de Alexander Sebastian Dent (professor de antropologia na George Washington University, EUA), consiste numa análise etnográfica da música rural mediatizad...

Abstract In this Dossier, four scholars reflect on Nicholas Onuf’s leading article, ‘Metaphoricizing modernity’, (re)engaging with – and celebrating – more broadly Onuf’s groundbreaking work from different pl...

The tea plantations of Assam, remnants of the British Raj in postcolonial India, comprise an important epistemic site for interrogating transformations in the ancient caste system within Indian modernity. Two theoretical...

Book review: Jóhann Páll Árnason: The Labyrinth of Modernity. Horizons, Pathways and Mutations. Lanham – Boulder – New York – London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020, 230 pp.

Abstract We of the modern world tell stories about being modern, becoming modern. We ask where modernity is going. Two metaphorical complexes dominate these stories: We favour metaphors of life and growth; modernity has ...

Abstract This article examines a key element of the power relations underpinning international politics, namely coloniality. It delineates the coloniality of international politics, and elucidates the fundamental aspects...

Discute-se idéias (tais como a "política gerativa" proposta por Anthony Giddens) para uma reorganização da modernidade, alternativas tanto ao privatismo individualista quanto a uma concepção de solidariedade excess...

The symposium on overcoming modernity (kindai no chōkoku) that took place in Tokyo in 1942 has been much commented upon, but later critics have tended to over-emphasize the wartime political context and the ideological ...