its institutions and procedures in the Brazilian republican life. Magistrates, particularly, have come to play increasingly prominent roles in society, being summoned to act expanding citizens' rights. Despite an increasing number of studies on judges over the past few years, little attention has been devoted to understanding their associative life Association of Brazilian Magistrates (AMB), the Association of Federal Judges of Brazil (Ajufe) and the National Association of Labor Court Judges (Anamatra), this article aims to analyze aspects of the associative life of magistrates, investigating both some aspects of their internal dynamics and elements related to the entry of such corporations into the Brazilian political scene.
ResumoNos últimos anos, sobretudo devido ao destaque que a crítica pós-colonial assumiu no âmbito da sociologia, diversos estudos têm apontado para a necessidade de se problematizarem as relações de produção e circulação da teoria sociológica entre centro e periferia. O livro de José Maurício Domingues, Teoria Crítica e (Semi)Periferia, ao trazer para o centro da reflexão teóricos provenientes de diferentes regiões periféricas do globo -como América Latina, Índia, China e Israel -, abre novas possibilidades para a reflexão crítica sobre a geopolítica da teoria sociológica, assim como contribui para a discussão em torno da modernidade global a partir da periferia e da semi-periferia.
SOCIOLOGIAS 347Critical theory and Semiperiphery: Reflections on global modernity and the geopolitics of sociological theory
AbstractIn the past few years, mainly due the prominence that the Post-Colonial studies have assumed in the field of sociology, several studies have pointed to the need to problematize the relations of production and circulation of sociological theory between center and periphery. José Maurício Domigues's book, Theory and Semi-Periphery, by bringing to the center of theoretical reflections authors from different peripheral regions of the globe -such as Latin America, India, China and Israel -, opens new possibilities for critical reflection about the geopolitics of sociological theory as well contributes to the discussion on global modernity from the Periphery and Semi-Periphery.
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