Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-18

Part I - Reconstructing the History of Atlantic Modernity

pp 19-20

1 - The American Divergence, the Modern Western World and the Paradigmatisation of History

pp 21-41

2 - The Limits of Recognition: History, Otherness and Autonomy

pp 42-63

3 - On Being in Time: Modern African Elites and the Historical Challenge to Claims for Alternative and Multiple Modernities

pp 64-76

4 - The Sublime Dignity of the Dictator: Republicanism and the Return of Dictatorship in Political Modernity

pp 77-100

5 - The Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment: Between Reform and Revolution

pp 101-122

Part II - Comparing Trajectories of Modernity in the South

pp 123-124

6 - Inconsistencies between Social-democratic Discourses and Neo-liberal Institutional Development in Chile and South Africa: a Comparative Analysis of the Post-authoritarian Periods

pp 125-148

7 - 7. HIV/AIDS Policies and Modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a Comparative Critical Analysis

pp 149-173

8 - Land and Restitution in Comparative Perspective: Analysing the Evidence of Right to Land for Black Rural Communities in Brazil and South Africa

pp 174-194

Part III - Claims for Justice in the History of Modernity and in its Present

pp 195-196

9 - An Unsettled Past as a Political Resource

pp 197-218

10 - Injustice at Both Ends: Pre- and Post-apartheid Literary Approaches to Injustice, Sentiment and Humanism in the Work of C. Louis Leipoldt, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and the Film Invictus

pp 219-237

11 - The Student Movement in Chile 2011–12: Rearming the Critique of Capitalism

pp 238-257

12 - Indignation and Claims for Economic Sovereignty in Europe and the Americas: Renewing the Project of Control over Production

pp 258-287

Notes on the Contributors

pp 288-293

Index

pp 294-299