Keynote speech 1: Identity and subjectivity in the era of globalization (original) (raw)

Levels of Identity in the Age of Globalization and its Role on Policy-making

IAU International Journal of Social Sciences, 2015

This article explores the intricate interrelationships between discourses on identity and the multiple processes associated with increasing globalization in the modern age. Globalization is not only often exclusively associated with worldwide economic integration and the emergence of a borderless global market but also involves sweeping changes on the social, cultural and political domains. Furthermore, it entails contradictory processes of homogenization and universalization on the one hand and localization and differentiation on the other which has led to wide-ranging changes in the processes of identity formation. Fundamentally, discourses of identity are discussed on individual, subnational, national, supranational and global levels. Attention is furthermore given to the role of the media, information and communication technologies in these struggles and the implications for policy-making within the media and communications sector. So, this paper is trying to explore the interre...

The politics of identification in the context of globalization

Women's Studies International Forum, 1996

Synopsis-Ironically, globalization dynamics reveal the centrality of private sphere activities and their gendered politics to processes of identification, structural inequalities, and political action. Bringing the family/household into relation with nation-states and global capitalism (and vice versa) exposes the pervasive and interactive power of gender(ed) identifications and divisions of labor. Today's global restructuring constitutes an erosion of nation-state power visa -vis managing national economies, protecting citizen's rights, and delivering social services. Situating gender and nationalism in this global context problematizes the accountability of nation-stares and the pursuit of nationalism and other state-centric identities.

Globalization And Cultural Identity Dilemmas

2014

This paper aims to present an important phenomenon of our world, namely the contradictory relationship between globalization and cultural identity. In this work identity is understood as a cultural practice therefore it cannot be analyzed without taking into account global communication and diversity. The multidimensional transformation of our society in the XXI century is marked by increased interconnectivity and affirmation of singular identities. These identities come in constant tension with the context in which the existing political forms that are in crisis and the restructuring processes through new projects are struggling to set up a new society. Globalization versus cultural identity it’s not a zero-sum game even though the two might be perceived as opposite processes this paper argue that it globalization cultural identity can go hand in hand with globalization.

Globalization, Identity Politics and Social Justice

The term and process of globalization ignited many debates and social struggles all over the globe. The process of globalization has significant impact on transforming the world economy. The struggles of the people are often articulated in terms of identity, self respect and cultural autonomy in the backdrop of globalization. Globalization is a move towards uniformity of culture, lifestyles, values of the diverse nations and communities. And on other there are efforts to retain ones own culture, life and values. This is resulting in hegemony of the dominant nations and assertions of identity politics in response to this phenomenon. The identity politics are not only redefining one's own existence but also citizenship. These struggles are reformulating the ethics of political traditions of liberal, radical, conservative and communitarian. Social justice as an ethical tool may be helpful in evaluating the ideologies of these political streams in relation to identity politics. In other words, strength and weakness of identity struggles may be debated in the wake of globalization. Globalization and its Discontent Today the word globalization becomes a master word, a metanarrative as many debates are centred on this. It had many connotations. The literature on globalization informs that globalization often identified with neo liberalism and economic globalization. In other words, it is a continuation of capitalism with faster than earlier through technological revolution. Globalization is defined by a policy framework of increased competition, capital mobility, liberalization of trade, financial markets and privatisation, all seeking to alter and reshape the relationships between capital, employment and the role of government. The policy framework of neo-liberalism makes financial capital more mobile and no longer tied to the nation state. Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it has involved some real changes in terms of scale, speed, and cognition (Kinnvall, 2002a). In terms of scale, the number of economic, political, and social linkages between societies is greater than at any previous time in history. In terms of speed, globalization involves a compression of time and space never previously experienced; in terms of cognition, there is an increased perception of the globe as a smaller place-that events elsewhere have consequences for our everyday political, social, and economic lives, affecting individuals' sense of being. It is this de-territorialization of time and space that affects daily life. The key to understanding globalization is theorizing at once a product of technological revolution, and global restructuring of capitalism in which economic, technological, political, and cultural features are intertwined. 1 Globalization is not only an economic process, but also had impact on cultural and political spheres of life of the nations of the world. It is about politics of power. It is about cultural hegemony. It is about the journey of global capital and its efforts to expand its market base. Further to talk globalization is to talk about the story of dominance of developed nations over other and increased inequalities of the underdeveloped. The discourse on globalization is not complete unless until we take note of discontent or resistance to globalization. However,

Globalization and Identity: reassessing power, hybridism and plurality

2014

Globalization has been a disputed concept among social theorists who diverge in defining the time-line, the contents or even the consequences of global processes, whether they refer to transnational capitalism, to liberal democracy, to cultural encounters, mass-media, fashion or the internet. Traditionally, globalization has been either viewed as the spread of western modernity, as an eroding force against the nation-state or, perhaps more importantly, as an uneven and contradictory system of fluxes between centre and periphery, which is often associated with the historicallybounded dichotomy between the west and the rest. Rather than a reified substance, contemporary globalization is broadly the heuristic device which connects the global and the local supporting the continued relations between old colonizers and postcolonized societies. From imperialist days to nowadays, globalization brings into play a history of violence and domination, but also of resistance, change and creativi...

Shifting Twenty-First-Century Discourses, Borders and Identities

2020

The world is spinning around us and we are spinning with it. When changes occur at the geopolitical level, inevitable changes also occur in people’s identity and in the way they see and represent the world. This book looks at this world with new eyes, approaching contemporary history (and herstory) from a scholarly perspective that cancels borders. Emphasis here is laid on migration, geopolitics, global citizenship, human rights, the EU and the non-EU, and East and West, as represented in fiction and drama or translated on television. The first part of the volume deals with migration and alterations in the non-Western world, with constant references to September 11, terrorism and wars, and the Syrian refugee crisis, before the focus moves on to one of the most important migration hosts nowadays, the European Union, discussing its expansion to the East, French President Macron’s call for renewal, and, lastly, a possible beginning of the end, announced by Brexit. This volume is a mirror of the discourses of globalization, one that makes the old self-other dichotomy obsolete. We are all selves in the eye of the storm that is raving around us, bringing change with it.