XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018)

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Globalization, Structures of Violence and Everyday Life

Language: English

Globalization processes have had both productive and problematic consequences – not just for reconfiguring ‘macro’ societal structures but indeed deeply impacting the everyday lives of individuals and communities. But the latter  has received less scholarly attention, the priority often being accorded to institutional changes instead. Global institutional and techno-bureaucratic transformations have seen the dominance of socio-economic and political matrices that have themselves produced forms of inequalities and oppressions at an everyday life level. The langauge of ‘violence’ captures well the devastating effects of globalization processes which lead to displacements, dislocations and differentations across lines of gender, class, religion, age and nationality and merit critical sociological engagement as an ethical-moral project.