Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. About the Authors vii
4. Foreword and Acknowledgements viii
5. Collective Action and Political Transformations: An Introduction 1
6. 1 Politics and Modernity under Contemporary Conditions 14
7. Part I Trajectories of Modernity: How We Arrived at Where We Are
8. 2 Historical Interpretations of Modernity and Their Trajectories 35
9. 3 An Asymmetrically Consolidated Modernity 50
10. 4 Transformations of Modernity through Critique and Contestation 65
11. Part II Freedom, Equality, Solidarity
12. 5 Democracy and Capitalism 83
13. 6 Inclusion and Exclusion 103
14. 7 Political Equality and Social Inequality 124
15. Part III Enlarging the Scope of Political Action
16. 8 The Amazon, the Rhino and the Blue Sky over the Ruhr 145
17. 9 Violence, Autonomy and Everyday Life in Democracies 159
18. Part IV Rethinking the Possibilities of Political Agency
19. 10 Democracy in Transformation 177
20. 11 Entangled Histories, Possible Futures – South and North 196
21. Notes 215
22. References 237
23. Index 252