On living in an already-unsettled world

Covid as an expression of larger transformations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12716633
AutoresP James (0000-0002-8591-4594, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia, autor de correspondencia), Manfred B Steger (0000-0002-1679-6539, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia)
Año2021
Volumen19
Número3
Páginas426-438
Fecha de publicación2021-08-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobalizations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14747731.2021.1961460
OpenAlexW3193004340
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas20

This essay elaborates the terms of our central argument about the current intensification of global disjunctures. We introduce a crucial dimension of our engaged theory of globalization that can usefully be brought to the fore to understand these cleavages and tensions. The essay scrutinizes two key conjunctures, comparing the current Global Covid Crisis with the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis. It concludes that massive disjunctures in the way we live locally and globally have had incongruous effects on the global-local nexus, but without leading to positive transformation. Rather, they are both expressions of a longer-term transformation we have been calling the Great Unsettling. Without reflexive counter-practices, the most likely mid-term prognosis for the world is an intensification of tensions and disjunctures that are leading to a further thickening of this complex dynamic

Argument (complex analysis · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Degrowth · Dimension (graph theory · Economic system · Economics · Expression (computer science · Globalization · Nexus (standard · Political economy · Political science · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Term (time · Transformation (genetics · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law