Globalization promising structural homogeneity and cultural unity is over and the turn to post-globalization becomes the newest challenge to sociology. With 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. Populist and 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. Sociologists have to reconceptualize global-local relations taking into account dispersed core-structure, shifted glocalities, and rerouted transnational flows.
The session welcomes contributions addressing themes of neo-traditionalist solidarities in the context of turn from neo-liberal globalization to post-globalization. Papers are expected to focus on such questions:
What is social and political meaning of post-globalization?
What can be a sociological perspective on simultaneous decline of neo-liberalism and formation of neo-traditionalist solidarities?
How do new forms of international integration redefine social and political agenda in post-globalization context?
What are economic, political, and cultural foundations for the construction of common BRICS identity among so different countries composing this bloc?
What role, positive or negative, is played by BRICS integrative initiatives and projects in maintenance and development of global-local relations?
