World- sociology, per Peter Wagner

9 maig, 2017

En el marc del Seminari internacional Perspectives globals en les Humanitats i les Ciències Socials, us convidem a la conferència World- sociology, a càrrec de Peter Wagner, Investigador ICREA- Research Council Advanced Grant project, Universitat de Barcelona.

La conferència tindrà lloc el dijous 18 de maig de les 14:30 hores a la seu central de la UOC (Avinguda Tibidabo, 39-43 08035 Barcelona).

Inscripcions: l’entrada és lliure, però cal inscriure’s aquí.

Resum de la conferència

The objective of a world-sociology is to elaborate an understanding of the present sociopolitical constellation that is global in its outlook but sensitive to differences in specific spatiotemporal circumstances and that is based on insights into how this present constellation has been brought about through transformations of preceding socio-political constellations. This is a time honoured task addressed in ‘classical’ historical sociology, but largely abandoned today because of theoretical and methodological criticism of earlier attempts. This seminar tries to show how a new approach to this task can be developed: by identifying the elements for such work in recent debates; by outlining the conceptual steps necessary for reconstruction; and finally by sketching the contours of such a new world-sociology in some substance.

Nota biogràfica

peter-wagnerPeter Wagner is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. He has been Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Advanced Grant project Trajectories of Modernity (2010-2015) and is currently Principal Investigator in the project The debt: historicizing Europe’s relations with the ‘South’, funded by the consortium Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) within the framework of the joint research programme Uses of the past (2016-2019). His recent publications include Progress: A Reconstruction (2016; French and German editions forthcoming) and Modernity: Understanding the Present (2012) as well as the (co-)edited volumes The Trouble with Democracy (2016, with Gerard Rosich), African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity (2015); and The Greek polis and Democracy: A Politico-cultural Transformation and its Interpretations (with Johann Arnason and Kurt Raaflaub, 2013).

Selecció d’articles

Wagner, Peter. 2015. Progress: A Reconstruction. Cambridge: Polity Press (2016; French and German editions forthcoming).

Wagner, Peter. 2012. Modernity: Understanding the Present. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Wagner, Peter. 2011. “Violence and justice in global modernity: reflection on South Africa with world-sociological intent”. Social Science Information/Information sur les sciences sociales. V. 50 3-4 . 483–504.

Wagner, Peter & Nathalie Karagiannis. 2007. Varieties of World-Making: Beyond Globalization. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

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