Modernities in Conflict

This paper takes into account the concept of "modernities" in its plural aception. Instead of assuming the production of a modernity in Europe which is copied world wide, I assume the production of several types of modernity along the time and in different spaces and locations. These processes occur with different social embodiments such as the nation-states, or only the nations, but the point is that these social constellations are in conflictive interaction among themselves, that is to say, the are "defensive modernities". I will show these processes in a comparative way analyzing the European modernity, the northamerican modernity, the japanese modernity, the chinese modernity and the latinamerican modernity.