Aurea Mota
Biographic Data
| ID | 288667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aurea Mota |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aurea |
| FAMILY NAME | Mota |
| SIGNATURE | MOTA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4363-4188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Speculative fiction between criticism and catastrophism in the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin
This article analyses three speculative fiction novels from the last decades of the 20th century: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, along with Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) by Octavia E. Butler, from a sociological perspective. Through a theoretical analysis, we argue that these novels offer key ways to word a world and provide insight into broader cultural transformations, particularly shifts in the semantics…
Exposição Mercurial E Vulnerabilidade Alimentar Em Diferentes Contextos Territoriais Na Amazônia
Carbon societies’ past, present and future
Ongoing societal commitments to carbon energy systems means that escalating climate catastrophe becomes the unavoidable outcome of a system of reasoning and institutional practice that historically has enabled the consolidation and global advance of a fossil fuel hegemony. To understand the ‘rational’ component of these developments, it is necessary to examine how the reasoning and practices associated with this hegemony gradually came to be embe…
Cosmopolitismo en América Latina, un recorrido histórico conceptual
En este artículo se desarrollan elementos claves para pensar que, a pesar de que los debates teóricos cosmopolitas han sido determinados por una conceptualización eurocéntrica, existe una tradición intelectual latinoamericana que de manera renovadora ha abogado por el cosmopolitismo como práctica política esencial para el mundo moderno. Para desarrollar el análisis sobre cómo se formó y transformó el imaginario cosmopolita en América Latina en lo…
Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity
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 fo…
Displacement and Global Cultural Transformation
How do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else? Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Democracy and Capitalism
Collective Action and Political Transformations
Takes lessons from the Global South to explore the possibilities for positive political action worldwide Collective action in our current global situation is often associated with growing intolerance, xenophobia and exclusion, or it is regarded as incapable of making a real and positive difference in the lives of individuals. This book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but it arrives at a more opti…
World-Sociology Beyond Eurocentrism
Governing the Anthropocene
The growing body of literature on the idea of the Anthropocene has opened up serious questions that go to the heart of the social and human sciences. There has been as yet no satisfactory theoretical framework for the analysis of the Anthropocene debate in the social and human sciences. The notion of the Anthropocene is not only a condition in which humans have become geologic agents, thus signalling a temporal shift in Earth history: it can be s…
Trajectories Of Modernity—Towards A Renewal Of Historical-Comparative Sociology
Uncivilised Civilisations
Eisenstadt, Brazil and the multiple modernities framework
The notion of multiple modernities as developed by Eisenstadt has become increasingly influential in debates about modernity and the historical formation of societies in comparative perspective. On closer inspection, the theoretical framework is less than straightforward when it comes to specific applications. This article considers Brazil from the perspective of a revised theory of multiple modernities. There has been virtually no application to…
"En el sueño del hombre que soñaba, el soñado se despertó"
Neste artigo argumentamos que os temas da ação e da história presentes em alguns contos de Jorge Luis Borges antecipam alguns pontos que apareceram nas discussões pós-estruturalistas - nos campos da história, filosofia, antropologia - das últimas décadas do século XX. No seu labirinto literário-filosófico, especialmente por meio da ideia de destino, Borges explora elementos chave que se tornaram parte da noção de crítica que enfatiza as ideias de…
Governing the Anthropocene
The growing body of literature on the idea of the Anthropocene has opened up serious questions that go to the heart of the social and human sciences. There has been as yet no satisfactory theoretical framework for the analysis of the Anthropocene debate in the social and human sciences. The notion of the Anthropocene is not only a condition in which humans have become geologic agents, thus signalling a temporal shift in Earth history: it can be s…
Eisenstadt, Brazil and the multiple modernities framework
The notion of multiple modernities as developed by Eisenstadt has become increasingly influential in debates about modernity and the historical formation of societies in comparative perspective. On closer inspection, the theoretical framework is less than straightforward when it comes to specific applications. This article considers Brazil from the perspective of a revised theory of multiple modernities. There has been virtually no application to…
"En el sueño del hombre que soñaba, el soñado se despertó"
Neste artigo argumentamos que os temas da ação e da história presentes em alguns contos de Jorge Luis Borges antecipam alguns pontos que apareceram nas discussões pós-estruturalistas - nos campos da história, filosofia, antropologia - das últimas décadas do século XX. No seu labirinto literário-filosófico, especialmente por meio da ideia de destino, Borges explora elementos chave que se tornaram parte da noção de crítica que enfatiza as ideias de…
Eisenstadt, Brazil and the multiple modernities framework
The notion of multiple modernities as developed by Eisenstadt has become increasingly influential in debates about modernity and the historical formation of societies in comparative perspective. On closer inspection, the theoretical framework is less than straightforward when it comes to specific applications. This article considers Brazil from the perspective of a revised theory of multiple modernities. There has been virtually no application to…
Trajectories Of Modernity—Towards A Renewal Of Historical-Comparative Sociology
Uncivilised Civilisations
Governing the Anthropocene
The growing body of literature on the idea of the Anthropocene has opened up serious questions that go to the heart of the social and human sciences. There has been as yet no satisfactory theoretical framework for the analysis of the Anthropocene debate in the social and human sciences. The notion of the Anthropocene is not only a condition in which humans have become geologic agents, thus signalling a temporal shift in Earth history: it can be s…
World-Sociology Beyond Eurocentrism
Democracy and Capitalism
Collective Action and Political Transformations
Takes lessons from the Global South to explore the possibilities for positive political action worldwide Collective action in our current global situation is often associated with growing intolerance, xenophobia and exclusion, or it is regarded as incapable of making a real and positive difference in the lives of individuals. This book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but it arrives at a more opti…
Displacement and Global Cultural Transformation
How do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else? Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity
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 fo…
Cosmopolitismo en América Latina, un recorrido histórico conceptual
En este artículo se desarrollan elementos claves para pensar que, a pesar de que los debates teóricos cosmopolitas han sido determinados por una conceptualización eurocéntrica, existe una tradición intelectual latinoamericana que de manera renovadora ha abogado por el cosmopolitismo como práctica política esencial para el mundo moderno. Para desarrollar el análisis sobre cómo se formó y transformó el imaginario cosmopolita en América Latina en lo…
Speculative fiction between criticism and catastrophism in the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin
This article analyses three speculative fiction novels from the last decades of the 20th century: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, along with Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) by Octavia E. Butler, from a sociological perspective. Through a theoretical analysis, we argue that these novels offer key ways to word a world and provide insight into broader cultural transformations, particularly shifts in the semantics…
Exposição Mercurial E Vulnerabilidade Alimentar Em Diferentes Contextos Territoriais Na Amazônia
Carbon societies’ past, present and future
Ongoing societal commitments to carbon energy systems means that escalating climate catastrophe becomes the unavoidable outcome of a system of reasoning and institutional practice that historically has enabled the consolidation and global advance of a fossil fuel hegemony. To understand the ‘rational’ component of these developments, it is necessary to examine how the reasoning and practices associated with this hegemony gradually came to be embe…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Modernity (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (3 works)