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<p>The article connects a&#xa0;reorientation and redating of modernity with recent sociological debates on refiguration and transformation. It is argued that a&#xa0;decolonial and postcolonial analysis requires both a&#xa0;concept of refiguration and one of transformation due to fundamental upheavals and long-term spatial reorderings. The article proposes a&#xa0;conceptual vocabulary primarily based on historical and ethnographic works from and about the Caribbean as the region with the longest colonial history. In a&#xa0;next step, three critical junctures of modernity are analyzed: 1)&#xa0;<i>encubrimiento</i> and colonization, focusing on the plantation system and its institutional basis: slavery and the trade of enslaved people; 2)&#xa0;revolution and state formation exemplified by the struggle for freedom and independence in Haiti beyond racial attributions; and 3)&#xa0;climate change and the Capitalocene, illustrated by the long-term consequences of capitalist exploitation of nature and humanity for current climate crises, which disproportionately affects the Caribbean and its most vulnerable communities. The list of modernity’s critical junctures is not exhausted by these three moments, but the chosen triad allows for a&#xa0;historical perspective that views modernity as processual in its becoming over a&#xa0;<i>longue durée</i> and relational in its entanglements between different world regions.</p>

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Wendepunkte der Moderne: Refiguration und Transformation in der Karibik

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    2025年3月1日

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  • Fabio Santos,
  • Manuela Boatcă

摘要

The article connects a reorientation and redating of modernity with recent sociological debates on refiguration and transformation. It is argued that a decolonial and postcolonial analysis requires both a concept of refiguration and one of transformation due to fundamental upheavals and long-term spatial reorderings. The article proposes a conceptual vocabulary primarily based on historical and ethnographic works from and about the Caribbean as the region with the longest colonial history. In a next step, three critical junctures of modernity are analyzed: 1) encubrimiento and colonization, focusing on the plantation system and its institutional basis: slavery and the trade of enslaved people; 2) revolution and state formation exemplified by the struggle for freedom and independence in Haiti beyond racial attributions; and 3) climate change and the Capitalocene, illustrated by the long-term consequences of capitalist exploitation of nature and humanity for current climate crises, which disproportionately affects the Caribbean and its most vulnerable communities. The list of modernity’s critical junctures is not exhausted by these three moments, but the chosen triad allows for a historical perspective that views modernity as processual in its becoming over a longue durée and relational in its entanglements between different world regions.