Displacement and Global Cultural Transformation: Connecting Time, Space, and Agency in Modernity

Mota, Aurea

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“…Towards the end of his memoir, he referred to Brazil as the land where he had a 'glimpse of the future' (Zweig, 2009(Zweig, [1942, p. 426). See also Mota (2022). 2.…”

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Introduction: Social theory and the idea of the future

Delanty

2024

European Journal of Social Theory

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There is a new sensibility to the concept of the future in recent writings in the human and social sciences. The modern idea of the future is undergoing a tremendous rupture today such that older or taken-for-granted assumptions about it can no longer be left unscrutinized. While much of the new interest in the future is about events yet to come – and the spectre of catastrophe looms large in such thinking – the challenge for social theory is to understand how the future should be conceptualized today and how it relates to other concepts, such as space, hope, possibility and utopia. Some of the major controverses about how the future should be conceptualized can be summed up around the following debates, which are explored in this introductory article: the question of the temporality of the future, the extent to which the future is open, whether utopia has been superseded by dystopia and the implications of posthumanism especially in the context of the emergence of new technologies that have far-reaching implications for the human condition.

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“…Towards the end of his memoir, he referred to Brazil as the land where he had a 'glimpse of the future' (Zweig, 2009(Zweig, [1942, p. 426). See also Mota (2022). 2.…”

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Introduction: Social theory and the idea of the future

Delanty

2024

European Journal of Social Theory

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“…A critique of the current understanding of intellectuals will be developed below. To be clear, for now it must be anticipated that the concept of intellectual as used in this article encompasses people who dedicate some of their life to disseminating their ideas and interpretations of the world by deploying a variety of means of communication (Mota, 2022). This article therefore demands a reconsideration of the classical understanding of intellectual activity in favour of a dynamic and entangled act of thinking.…”

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“…More generally, by analysing the role of women as modern cultural mediators, within the positivistic movement and socialist circles, this article brings the presence of women as key agents of entangled knowledge to the forefront of global history and the sociology of intellectuals. I proceed through a methodological approach that connects personal and professional experiences to the sociohistorical and spatial context of the actor under scrutiny, a method I call ‘geo-biographical analysis’ (Mota, 2022). As I will show, the intellectual production and networks created by women transformed the way that societies in different times and spaces structured modern scientific and cultural domains.…”

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Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity

Mota

2023

European Journal of Social Theory

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This article offers a perspective on how the proposed conceptualisation of the idea of displacement can be used to analyse processes of knowledge formation and transformation brought about by the movement of intellectuals in modernity. It develops a theoretical framework that considers the acts of cultural mediation and spatial displacement as key aspects for understanding the structures of knowledge and cultural interpretation produced in the formation of modernity. Making use of historical–sociological tools, it examines biographical information along with the intellectual contributions of two female intellectuals, Flora Tristan (1803–1844) and Nísia Floresta (1810–1855). This contribution seeks to re-address the problem how to understand modernity from a decentred point of view. It procdeds by discussing how the history of modernity and its different cultural manifestations should be analysed with greater attention to practices of mediation and theoretical interpretations as developed by lesser-known intellectuals. Thus, the article also contributes to analysing the agency of women intellectuals in the history of modernity.

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Displacement and Global Cultural Transformation: Connecting Time, Space, and Agency in Modernity

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Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity

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