Peter Wagner is Research Professor of Social Sciences at the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and at the University of Barcelona as well as temporarily project director at Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg.

His main research areas are in historical-comparative sociology and in social and political theory. His recent publications include the books Collective action and political transformations: the entangled experiences of Brazil, South Africa, and Europe (with Aurea Mota, 2019), European modernity: a global approach (with Bo Stråth, 2017), and Progress: a reconstruction (2016).

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