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Political Modernity and Beyond: Crisis, Struggles and Reconfigurations book cover

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Political Modernity and Beyond Crisis, Struggles and Reconfigurations

Edited By Sofia Aboim, José Maurício Domingues, Filipe Carreira da Silva Copyright 2026
238 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Amidst rising tensions affecting democracy, capitalism and planetary life, this book discusses the multiple crises, processes and conflicts reconfiguring modernity. Tracking the political, social and ecological dynamics at play, it offers a critical perspective on the forces that may redefine the futures of political modernity. It asks whether a transition is unfolding and whether a new phase... Read more

INTRODUCTION

Sofia Aboim, José Maurício Domingues and Filipe Carreira da Silva

Crises

1. Democracy and Statehood: Varieties of (Pandemic) Crises and Their Consequences

Wolfgang Knöbl

2. The Fate of Democracy and the Weakening of Its Moral and Socio-Cultural Supports in Contemporary Societies. The Case of Chile.

Kathya Araujo

3. Taxing Political Modernity. Fiscal Relations in Europe since 2020

Lars Döpking

4. Modernity and the Anthropocene: Between Rupture and Fulfilment

Manuel Arias-Maldonado

Struggles

5. From the Geopolitics of Inter-Imperial Rivalry to the Geo-ideology of Inter-Civilizational Struggle

Ho-fung Hung

6. Empire Reloaded: Rethinking Modernity through Territorial and Digital Border Crises

Sofia Aboim

7. Intersectional Situations and Politics: Far-Right Voters in Brazil and Germany

Sérgio Costa

8. Racial Capitalism, the Politics of Care, and People as Profit

Premilla Nadasen

Reconfigurations

9. Modernity and Its Horizon Today: Phases, Challenges and Perspectives

José Maurício Domingues

10. Re-modernity: Making Sense of Social Experience in Times of Digital Platforms, New State Interventionism and Technological Megalomania

Paolo Gerbaudo

11. Post-disciplinary Science and Post-national Politics: Rethinking Political Modernity

Filipe Carreira da Silva

12. Global Perspectives on Local Solutions: eHealth and Digital Divide Through the Lens of Comparative Law

Elena Grasso

Biography

Sofia Aboim is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon (Portugal). Her fields of interests are gender, migration, race and ethnicity, especially in the historical borders of the former Portuguese Empire. Her last book is Gender Fields (2024).

José Maurício Domingues is Professor at Institute for Social and Political Research of University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ) (Brazil). He received the Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (2018). He researches on social, political and critical theory. His last book is Political Modernity and Social Theory (2024).

Filipe Carreira da Silva is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon (Portugal) and Fellow of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). His interests include sociological, social and political theories. He has authored, with Mónica Brito Vieira, the forthcoming book Democratic Resentment.

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