Postmodernism and Globalization

Bibliographic Data

ID19475868
AuthorsOmar Lizardo (0000-0002-5405-3007), M Strand (0000-0002-6820-5358), ProtoSociology Project
Year2009
Volume26
Pages36-70
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueProtoSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1434-4319
PublisherPhilosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5840/protosociology2009263
OpenAlexW2299837679
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited46

Interest in postmodernity that has stagnated over the past decade has come to be replaced by a concern with globalization. While the two terms are often considered to be divergent there is a continuity as theoretical discourse transfers from one to the other. In what follows, we first distill the heuristic models employed by various knowledge-geographical traditions of social thought in conceptualizing postmodernism. We then transpose these models into recent debates on globalization. Globalization theory has become the provence of British and American theorists because of a contiguity that extends back to a propitious model employed to understand postmodernism. Globalization theory in France and Germany are largely non-existent or tangential for similar reasons that find opposite tendencies. The spatial and temporal aspect inherent to both the modern and postmodern indicates that both already present a stance on globalization. Among the key factors predicting the fortunes of heuristic models is the continuation of classical theoretical concerns in the present situation of globalization. Post-classical tendencies in heuristic models indicate that more cloistered postmodern concerns do not transfer well to globalization. Those heuristic models that conceive of a postmodernist break are those whose application to present instantiations of globalization is subsequently limited

Epistemology · Globalization · Political science · Postmodernism · Sociology · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy