Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rethinking modernity through social contestation: Modernity and critique : elements of a world-sociology / Peter Wagner. The global transition and the challenge to social sciences / Sujata Patel. Modernity and the violence of global accumulation : the ethnic question in China / Lin Chun. Demystifying modernity : in defence of a singular and normative ideal / G Aloysius. Vicissitudes and potentialities of critical theory / José Maurício Domingues -- Rethinking social contestation through modernity: The global age : a social movement perspective / Geoffrey Pleyers. Social movements and contemporary modernity : internationalism and patterns of global contestation / Breno Bringel. Global modernity, social criticism and the local intelligibility of contestation in Mozambique / Elísio Macamo. Globalized modernity, contestations and revolutions : the cases of Egypt and Tunisia / Sarah Ben Néfissa. Modernity, cultural diversity and social contestation / Luis Tapia -- Borders of modernity and frontiers of exclusion : rights, citizenship and contestation in comparative perspective: Half-positions and social contestation : on the dynamics of exclusionary integration / Craig Browne. Abyssal lines and contestation in the construction of modern Europe : a de-colonial perspective of the Spanish case / Heriberto Cairo and Keina Espiñeira. From international legality to local struggle : how and why human rights matters to social movements in Argentine democracy / Gabriela Delamata. Social contestation and substantive citizenship : popular mobilization in South Africa's modern state / Marcelle Dawson.

A key resource for research in both social theory and the sociology of modernity, as well as social movements and social contestation, and for those interested in globalization and global studies.