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Aims to bring together a renewed perspective of critical theory and the theories of social movements in order to think about emancipation globally. Brings together contributions from all over the world in order to achieve a multifaceted standpoint.
Global Modernity, Social Criticism and the Local Intelligibility of Contestation in Mozambique
Global Modernity, Social Criticism and the Local Intelligibility of Contestation in Mozambique
Introduction
Sociology is modernity in other words. It saw the light of day as a language that fulfilled the task of describing a type of society emerging out of very specific historical circumstances, and it rendered that type of society visible through its descriptions. Arguably no sociologist has expressed this relationship better than Emile Durkheim (1984, 1988) whose key concepts are better understood as performative social descriptions, i.e., as ways of producing reality through description (see also Macamo, 2011). Doing sociology, therefore, is an engagement with modernity. The question for someone who deploys sociological tools primarily to make sense of social ...
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