Reconceptualization of Local-Global Relations In the Age of Post-Globalization

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 neoliberal patterns of economic integration and construction of transnational & translocal solidarities. Post-globalization is changing the structures of local-global relations presented in such conceptions as ‘core/semi-periphery/periphery’ (I. Wallerstein), ‘glocalization’ (R. Robertson), ‘global flow’ (A. Appadurai). Sociologists have to reconceptualize local-global relations taking into account dispersed core-structure, shifted glocalities, and rerouted flows.

The session welcomes contributions addressing reflexion of social consequences of neoliberal globalization and formation of new translocal socialities overcoming political, economic, and cultural barriers. 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 neoliberalism and rise of neotraditionalism as a discursive frame for social (re)integration?

How do localities / local orders of social life react to de-globalization tendencies (new gaps, barriers, conflicts etc.)?

Can new translocal socialities become structures of re-globalization avoiding outdated patterns of transnational corporations and international bureaucracies?