Latin America and Contemporary Modernity: A Sociological Interpretation

by Domingues; JosT Maurfcio

• ISBN13: 9780415964678
• ISBN10: 0415964679
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this book, renowned author José Maurício Domingues places Latin America within the third phase of global modern civilization and offers a general theoretical approach to contemporary Latin America. He sees modernity as configured by episodic modernizing moves which, when counting on strong identity and organization as well as clear-cut projects, may assume the aspect of modernizing offensives. Highlighting subjects as law, rights and justice as well as globalization and development, Dominguez places Latin America in the uneven, combined and contradictory development of modern civilization and offers a final assessment of its possibilities and limits. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of modernity, globalization, Latin America, sociological theory and its key concepts.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Latin America and Modernity
Multidimensionality and Agency, Imaginary and Institutions
The Structure of the Book
Acknowledgments
Law, Rights, and Justice	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
The Pulse of Freedom	p. 3
Intermediate Reflections - Real Abstractions, Disembeddings, and Re-embeddings	p. 11
The New Faces of Rights, Law, and Justice	p. 13
Partial Conclusions: Real Abstractions, Social Coordination, and the (Renewed) Relations between Concreteness and Universality	p. 33
Development, Globalization, and the Search for Alternatives	p. 39
Introduction	p. 39
Capitalism and the Modern Project, Markets and the State	p. 40
Intermediate Reflections - Accumulation, Regulation, and Development	p. 47
New Regulations, Economic Restructuring, and the Patterns of Capital Accumulation	p. 51
Partial Conclusions: A New Mode of Regulation Indeed, but a New Regime of Accumulation?	p. 71
Identities and Domination, Solidarity and Projects	p. 76
Introduction	p. 76
The Build-Up of a Region	p. 77
Intermediate Reflections - Collective Subjectivities and Sites of Solidarity	p. 84
Collective Subjectivities and Modernizing Moves Today	p. 92
Partial Conclusions: Modernizing Moves, Transformism, and Molecular Change	p. 119
Conclusion	p. 123
A Recapitulation of Basic Issues	p. 123
Modernization, Civilization, and Development	p. 125
Shortcomings of the Present, Possibilities of the Future	p. 130
Notes	p. 133
Bibliography	p. 165
Index	p. 181
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