Post-Globalization and Neo-Traditionalist Solidarities Among Brics Countries

Globalization promising structural homogeneity and cultural unity is over and the turn to post-globalization becomes the newest challenge to sociology. Post-globalization is a set of tendencies towards: 1) localization of globality in networked super-urban enclaves where flows of things, symbols, and humans made social life really global – open, borderless, mobile, multicultural, 2) widening economic and social gaps between super-urban points of access to networks and flows of resources and surrounding towns and rural areas, 3) rising new barriers (trade wars, sanctions, anti-migrant walls, quarantines, military confrontations etc.) to restrict transnational networks and flows.

Post-globalization is challenging neo-liberal patterns of economic integration and construction of transnational solidarities. Neo-traditionalist movements and governments across the globe promote their own agenda of economic, political, and social integration. The growth of the BRICS group demonstrates at the same time weakness of neo-liberal economic drivers of integration and the rising importance of neo-traditionalist solidarities which overarch institutional, ideological, and cultural specificities. Becoming the rival to the G7 group in economic, political, and cultural terms, BRICS is changing the structures of global-local relations presented in such conceptions as ‘core/semi-periphery/periphery’ (I. Wallerstein), ‘glocalization’ (R. Robertson), ‘global flow’ (A. Appadurai). Sociologists have to reconceptualize global-local relations, taking into account dispersed core-structure, shifted glocalities, and rerouted flows. This paper presents the research supported by Russian Science Foundation (project #24-18-00261).