Introduction - Breno Bringel & José Mauricio Domingues PART I: RETHINKING MODERNITY THROUGH SOCIAL CONTESTATION Chapter 1: Modernity and Critique - Elements of a World-Sociology - Peter Wagner Chapter 2: The Global Transition and the Challenge to Social Sciences - Sujata Patel Chapter 3: Modernity and the Violence of Global Accumulation - The Ethnic Question in China - Chun Lin Chapter 4: Demystifying Modernity - In Defence of a Singular and Normative Ideal - G. Aloysius Chapter 5: Vicissitudes and Potentialities of Critical Theory - José Mauricio Domingues PART II: RETHINKING SOCIAL CONTESTATION THROUGH MODERNITY Chapter 6: The Global Age - A Social Movement Perspective - Geoffrey Pleyers Chapter 7: Social Movements and Contemporary Modernity - Internationalism and Patterns of Global Contestation - Breno Bringel Chapter 8: Global Modernity, Social Criticism and the Local Intelligibility of Contestation in Mozambique - Elisio Macamo Chapter 9: Globalised Modernity, Contestations and Revolutions - The Cases of Egypt and Tunisia - Sarah ben Néfissa Chapter 10: Modernity, Cultural Diversity and Social Contestation - Luis Tapia PART III: BORDERS OF MODERNITY AND FRONTIERS OF EXCLUSION - RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND CONTESTATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Chapter 11: Half-Positions and Social Contestation - On the Dynamics of Exclusionary Integration - Craig Browne Chapter 12: Abyssal Lines and Contestation in the Construction of Modern Europe - A De-colonial Perspective of the Spanish Case - Heriberto Cairo & Keina Espiñeira Chapter 13: From International Legality to Local Struggle - How and Why Human Rights Matters to Social Movements in Argentine Democracy - Gabriela Delamata Chapter 14: Social Contestation and Substantive Citizenship - Popular Mobilization in South Africa's Modern State - Marcelle Dawson.