Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

From a world history perspective, the most noticeable trend in the history of the late 19th century was the domination of Europeans over Non­Europeans. This domination took many forms ranging from economic penetration to outright annexation. No area of the globe, however remote from Europe, was free of European merchants, adventurers, explorers or western missionaries. Was colonialism good for either the imperialist or the peoples of the globe who found themselves subjects of one empire or another? A few decades ago, the answer would have been a resounding no. Now, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the more or less widespread discrediting of Marxist and Leninist analysis, and the end of the Cold War, political scientists and historians seem willing to take a more positive look at Nineteenth Century Imperialism. One noted current historian, Niall Ferguson has argued that the British Empire probably accomplished more positive good for the world than the last generation of historians, poisoned by Marxism, could or would concede. Ferguson has argued that the British Empire was a \" liberal \" empire that upheld international law, kept the seas open and free, and ultimately benefited everyone by ensuring the free flow of trade. In other words, Ferguson would find little reason to contradict the young Winston Churchill's assertion that the aim of British imperialism was to: give peace to warring tribes, to administer justice where all was violence, to strike the chains off the slave, to draw the richness from the soil, to place the earliest seeds of commerce and learning, to increase in whole peoples their capacities for pleasure and diminish their chances of pain. It should come as no surprise that Ferguson regards the United States current position in the world as the natural successor to the British Empire and that the greatest danger the U.S. represents is that the world will not get enough American Imperialism because U.S. leaders often have short attention spans and tend to pull back troops when intervention becomes unpopular. It will be very interesting to check back into the debate on Imperialism about ten years from now and see how Niall Ferguson's point of view has fared! The other great school of thought about Imperialism is, of course, Marxist. For example, Marxist historians like E.J. Hobsbawm argue that if we look at the l9th century as a great competition for the world's wealth and …

The New Imperialism

Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Aihwa Ong. Durham, NIC: Duke University Press, 1999. ix. 322 pp., notes, bibliography, index.

Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality

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Silencing the past: power and the production of history

This article analyses recent social, cultural and political developments in Latin America, with special reference to the `modernity/coloniality' project, as well as offering an alternative sociolog...

Global Modernization, `Coloniality' and a Critical Sociology for Contemporary Latin America

Introduction 1. Law, Rights and Justice 2. Development, Globalization and the Search for Alternatives 3. Identities and Domination, Solidarity and Projects. Conclusion

Latin America and Contemporary Modernity : A Sociological Interpretation

Introduction - PART 1: SYNTHESIS AND CAUSALITY - Active and Conditioning Causality in Sociological Theory - Individuals, Structures and Systems in Giddens' Structuration Theory - Life-World and System in Habermas' Historical Materialism - PART 2: TWO CONCEPTS OF COLLECTIVE SUBJECTIVITY - Marx: the Critique of Liberalism and the Social Classes - Parsons: Social Systems and Collective Actors - PART 3: SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND COLLECTIVE SUBJECTIVITY - Interaction, System and Structure - The Constitution of Collective Subjectivities - Collective Subjectivity and Multidimensionality - Conclusion - Index

Sociological Theory and Collective Subjectivity

As geracoes como problema sociologico, conceitual e empiri-camente, tem recebido certa atencao recentemente. Todavia permanecem subteorizadas, de modo geral e em termos de suas configuracoes particulares na modernidade. Este artigo reve a literatura sociologica e antropologica sobre o tema e propoe-se a reconceitua-lo fazendo uso do conceito de "subjetividade coletiva", para entao retomar a sua analise nos quadros da sociedade moderna.

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Gerações, modernidade e subjetividade coletiva

Nature, social systems and collective causality action and movement, memory and social creativity the logic of scientific research evolution and history modernity, tradition and reflexivity in contemporary Brazil the forms of co-ordination of the economy dialectics and modernity, autonomy and solidarity by way of conclusion - critical theory at the turn of the century.

José Maurício Domingues

Papers

Global Modernization, `Coloniality' and a Critical Sociology for Contemporary Latin America

Latin America and Contemporary Modernity : A Sociological Interpretation

Sociological Theory and Collective Subjectivity

Gerações, modernidade e subjetividade coletiva

Social Creativity, Collective Subjectivity and Contemporary Modernity