Roudometof
Biographic Data
| ID | 12625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roudometof |
| FAMILY NAME | Roudometof |
| SIGNATURE | ROUDOMETOF |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cyprus |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7886-6048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 303 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Systems Theories in Global and Transnational Context: A Review Essay
This essay offers a critical assessment of recent arguments about the relevance of systems theory and considers such interpretations, examined under the light of global and transnational scholarship. The significance of tracing the relationship between the Ancient Roman concept of Societas and the modern notion of society is highlighted. The reconstruction of the interpretative schemes outlined by Parsons, Habermas and Luhmann is similarly apprai…
Religion and Nationalism in the Orthodox Religioscape: Southeastern and Post-Soviet Europe in Historical Perspective
This article analyzes the historical relationship between Orthodox Christianity and nation formation. In past centuries, most adherents to the faith lived in the Ottoman and Russian Empires, under the Moscow and the Ecumenical Patriarchates. These two empires followed different historical trajectories as they entered the modern world of nations, and their ecclesiastical institutions evolved very differently. This article uses historical experienc…
How should we think about globalization in a post-globalization era
This article critically examines the challenges to the globalization paradigm observed throughout the world in the twenty-first century. While empirical evidence suggests that the policy-oriented globalization project of the 1990s has been superseded by different tendencies and policies, social-scientific scholarship in areas other than economics has not engaged with the notion of ‘post-globalization’. The principal reason appears to be the emplo…
On globalization in a post-globalization era: Reflections on the debate
In this short commentary, the lead article's author offers his reflections on the response papers. These include an assessment of possible misunderstandings and/or departures from the lead article's main topic, as well as clarifications regarding the substantive argument. Next, the author addresses a series of remarks that address specific points in the response papers. Overall, this intellectual exchange is characterized by a bifurcation of pers…
In search of global sociology: A critical overview of competing research agendas
This article critically examines the idea of global sociology in relationship to the discipline of Sociology. While the discipline initially emerged in Western societies, in the post-1945 era, the field extended its reach to the rest of the world. The intellectual project of global sociology emerged in the 1960s and has been on the agenda of the International Sociological Association since at least 1990. Delving deeper than the mere notion of a s…
Global sociology and its discontents
Sociology emerged in the course of Western modernization; its major classical-era statements are preoccupied with modernity and its impact on national societies. After decolonization, ‘Third World’ modernization paved the way for the notion of globalization. The sociology of globalization is a current specialty within US and European sociological associations. The promise of global sociology has been on the agenda of the International Sociologica…
Digital glocalization: Theorizing the twenty-first-century ICT revolution
This paper offers an overview and theorization of digital glocalization that transcends past interpretations concerning the effects of ICT on techno-social relationships. It outlines a general theoretical framework that uses glocalization as a bridge between global and local. Digital glocalization might lead to the reconstruction of “place” using digital means or, alternatively, to newly found “third” spaces of glocal hybridity. This framework co…
Globalization, glocalization and the ICT revolution
The article explores the relationship between globalization and the information and communications technology (ICT) revolution. The impact of ICTs does not conform to the globalization paradigm’s suggestions. To address this issue, this article argues that glocalization and localization should be viewed as autonomous processes. Glocalization offers a means for the interpretation of the ICT revolution in techno-social relationships. It leads to th…
Handbook of Culture and Glocalization
With contributions from top scholars in the field, this cutting-edge Handbook critically examines the effects of glocalisation on various subdisciplines of the humanities and social sciences. Broad and innovative, it uses engaging case studies to provide a fresh take on the different forms of the glocal in contemporary culture
Malaise dans la sociologie globale
La sociologie est née parallèlement à la modernisation occidentale ; ses principales positions héritées de l’ère classique portent sur la modernité et son impact sur les sociétés nationales. Après la décolonisation, la modernisation du « Tiers-Monde » a ouvert la voie à la notion de globalisation. La sociologie de la globalisation est une spécialité actuelle au sein des associations américaines et européennes de sociologie. La promesse d’une soci…
Qu'est-ce que la glocalisation
Cet article offre un aperçu des principales interprétations de la « glocalisation » telles qu'élaborées dans la littérature anglophone. Le discours scientifique sur la glocalisation rassemble des perspectives venant de disciplines et de programmes de recherches fort distincts. Outre la perspective géographique qui traite la glocalisation comme un niveau d'analyse intermédiaire dans une hiérarchie spatiale allant du local au global, le concept s'e…
Transnational Return and Social Change: Hierarchies, Identities, and Ideas
The History of Historical-Comparative Methods in Sociology
This chapter offers an overview of the historical trajectory of comparative-historical sociology while focusing on the issue of development of specific methodological approaches. The legacy of sociology’s founding fathers is discussed first, followed by an overview of the post–World War II U.S.-based academic research program that led to the institutional organization and academic acceptance of the field. The chapter then offers an assessment of …
Eastern Orthodoxy
Globalization, Cosmopolitanism and 21st Century Populism
The contemporary debate on 21st century populism centres on a term (“populism”) that can be flled with multiple meanings. It provides the social sciences with a “meta-concept” that offers coherence to disciplinary discourses. In the 21st century, globalization and cosmopolitanism are often viewed as an irresistible force by intellectuals, with advocacy of cosmopolitanism becoming commonplace. For the most part, the academic community has only bel…
The new conceptual vocabulary of the social sciences: The ‘Globalization Debates’ in Context
This discussion examines the disciplinary boundaries that affect the globalization debates that take place across different disciplinary subfields. I argue that the significance of globalization in these debates is due to its high-profile status in the public arena over the post-1989 era. Substantively, globalization is part of a new terminology articulated within the social sciences as a means of capturing the multitude of important shifts in th…
Cosmopolitanism, Glocalization and Youth Cultures
Globalization brings forth a geographical and thematic expansion of the scope of youth studies beyond the traditional topics of delinquency, studies of generations, and subculture. Youth has emerged as a topic for cosmopolitanism studies with a widespread tendency to use cosmopolitanism as a master narrative that leaves no conceptual room for considering ‘non-cosmopolitan’ on an equal footing. The article questions whether social research should …
Recovering the local: From glocalization to localization
Addressing a major theoretical lacuna in the literature concerning ‘the local’ and localization, different interpretations of the local are presented and critiqued and a different account of the local and localization as a focal point for social research is offered. In the article, it is argued that social theory needs to give the local its due and avoid surrendering the local to localism. The local is thematized in terms of the space/place nexus…
The Economic Activities of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus
Unlike many other Orthodox Churches, the Church of Cyprus evolved in a historically distinct trajectory, maintaining an institutional independence from post-1878 colonial authorities. This status was codified in the 1960 Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus. As a result, although it lost much of its estates during the British period, as well as after the 1974 Turkish invasion, the church was able to continue to operate as an independent economi…
Aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism and French youth: The taste of the world
Glocal Religions: An Introduction
This introductory article offers an overview of the volume's major problematic. It examines the literature on religion and globalization and then moves on to an overview of the literature on religion and glocalization. Throughout the discussion, the article refers explicitly to the volume's chapters and outlines how their specific themes fit within the broader problematic of glocal religions
Glocalization: A Critical Introduction
This book seeks to provide a critical introduction to the under-theorized concept of Glocalization. While the term has been slowly diffused into social-scientific vocabulary, to date, there is no book in circulation that specifically discusses this concept. Historically theorists have intertwined the concepts of the 'global' and the 'glocal' or have subsumed the 'glocal' under other concepts – such as cosmopolitanization. Moreover, theorists have…
Theorizing glocalization: Three interpretations1
This article presents three interpretations of glocalization in social-scientific literature as a means of reframing the terms of scholarly engagement with the concept. Although glocalization is relatively under-theorized, two key interpretations of the concept have been developed by Roland Robertson and George Ritzer. Through a critical and comparative overview, the article offers an assessment of the advances and weaknesses of each perspective.…
G reeks
This entry offers a brief overview of the different uses of the ethnonym “Greeks” in varied historical periods.
Mapping the Glocal Turn: Literature Streams, Scholarship Clusters and Debates
Based on a bibliographical survey, this article presents evidence of a silent glocal turn in 21st century academia. Several terms compete for describing the newfound situations of hybridity and fusion in the world, and glocalization is a new term that offers a high level of precision in comparison to other contenders. Three specific clusters of inter-disciplinary scholarship are identified as cutting edge areas of research: the study of consumer …
Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Glocalization
Transnationalism was originally connected to recent immigrant cohorts, but the concept has been expanded to include other groups of people, as well as a whole array of activities across borders. Cosmopolitanism is invoked both as a moral and ethical ideal, as well as a lived experience, thereby facilitating confusion between a theorist's prescriptive and descriptive statements. In contemporary scholarship, the presence of transnationalism is ofte…
The Glocal and Global Studies
This article offers an overview of engagements with the glocal and traces the consequences of this research agenda for Global Studies. First, it compares the emergence of the global and the glocal in the literature. It tracks the uneven impact of the business use of the glocal and argues that this genealogy has obscured alternative accounts. Second, it offers a thematic overview of the uses of glocalization in the literature. It highlights public…
Theorizing glocalization: Three interpretations1
This article presents three interpretations of glocalization in social-scientific literature as a means of reframing the terms of scholarly engagement with the concept. Although glocalization is relatively under-theorized, two key interpretations of the concept have been developed by Roland Robertson and George Ritzer. Through a critical and comparative overview, the article offers an assessment of the advances and weaknesses of each perspective.…
Nationalism, globalization and glocalization
This article offers a reassessment of the relationship among nationalism, globalization and glocalization. Conventionally, globalization is viewed as a historically recent challenge to the nation. It is argued that globalization, in contrast, is a long-term historical process. The emergence and perseverance of the nation is linked to outcomes of global processes, such as the experience of globality. Two conceptual links among the nation-form, his…
The glocalizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity
This article introduces the notion of multiple glocalizations as a means of analysing Christianity's historical record and argues that multiple glocalizations are constitutive of the intertwining between religion and historical globalization. It proposes that four concrete forms of glocalization can be observed: vernacularization, indigenization, nationalization and transnationalization. Each of these offers different combinations of universal re…
The cosmopolitan-local continuum in cross-national perspective
This article examines whether the cosmopolitan-local continuum is present among advanced industrialized world regions. Strictly comparable factor analyses show that its nation-based and place-based variants are observable across world regions. Results indicate that, from 1995 to 2003 among the regions analyzed, place-based localism is declining everywhere. This finding suggests that globalization's effects on personal lives are consequential in t…
Religion and national identity in post-communist Romania
Nationalism, Globalization, Eastern Orthodoxy: `Unthinking' the `Clash of Civilizations' in Southeastern Europe
Although the historical process of globalization has promoted the nation-state as a universal cultural form, national ideologies are far from uniform. This article explores how the competing discourses of citizenship and nation-hood evolved in Southeastern Europe throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By comparing the articulation of Serb, Greek and Bulgarian identities, the essay examines how regional historical factors led to the co…
Orthodox Christianity as a transnational religion: Theoretical, historical and comparative considerations
In this article I analyse Orthodox Christianity as a transnational religion. In the first section I develop a theoretical argument concerning the relationship among diaspora, transnationalism and Orthodoxy. Seen through these lenses, transnationalism represents a newfound situation connected to the epochal shift from empires to nation-states. I then give a historical overview of demographic trends which shows that in the course of the nineteenth …
Forms of Religious Glocalization: Orthodox Christianity in the Longue Durée
This article advocates a "glocal turn" in the religion-globalization problematic. It proposes a model of multiple glocalizations in order to analyze the historically constituted relationship between world religions and local cultures. First, the conceptual evolution from globalization to glocalization is discussed with special reference to the study of the religion. Second, the necessity for adopting the perspective of the longue durée with regar…
Glocalization, Space, and Modernity 1
Eurocentric narratives fuse the spatial and temporal components of modernity by identifying "modernity" with a specific era in European history. By destabilizing spatial and temporal boundaries, glocalization leads to a reconsideration of modernity. In order to explore the interplay among glocalization, space, and modernity, I suggest a thematization of modernity in terms of form and content. In terms of form, modernity is globalized and this glo…
Recovering the local: From glocalization to localization
Addressing a major theoretical lacuna in the literature concerning ‘the local’ and localization, different interpretations of the local are presented and critiqued and a different account of the local and localization as a focal point for social research is offered. In the article, it is argued that social theory needs to give the local its due and avoid surrendering the local to localism. The local is thematized in terms of the space/place nexus…
Globalization, glocalization and the ICT revolution
The article explores the relationship between globalization and the information and communications technology (ICT) revolution. The impact of ICTs does not conform to the globalization paradigm’s suggestions. To address this issue, this article argues that glocalization and localization should be viewed as autonomous processes. Glocalization offers a means for the interpretation of the ICT revolution in techno-social relationships. It leads to th…
Qu'est-ce que la glocalisation
Cet article offre un aperçu des principales interprétations de la « glocalisation » telles qu'élaborées dans la littérature anglophone. Le discours scientifique sur la glocalisation rassemble des perspectives venant de disciplines et de programmes de recherches fort distincts. Outre la perspective géographique qui traite la glocalisation comme un niveau d'analyse intermédiaire dans une hiérarchie spatiale allant du local au global, le concept s'e…
The new conceptual vocabulary of the social sciences: The ‘Globalization Debates’ in Context
This discussion examines the disciplinary boundaries that affect the globalization debates that take place across different disciplinary subfields. I argue that the significance of globalization in these debates is due to its high-profile status in the public arena over the post-1989 era. Substantively, globalization is part of a new terminology articulated within the social sciences as a means of capturing the multitude of important shifts in th…
Cosmopolitanism, Glocalization and Youth Cultures
Globalization brings forth a geographical and thematic expansion of the scope of youth studies beyond the traditional topics of delinquency, studies of generations, and subculture. Youth has emerged as a topic for cosmopolitanism studies with a widespread tendency to use cosmopolitanism as a master narrative that leaves no conceptual room for considering ‘non-cosmopolitan’ on an equal footing. The article questions whether social research should …
Economic Functions of Monasticism in Cyprus: The Case of the Kykkos Monastery
The article presents a comprehensive overview of the various economic activities performed by the Kykkos Monastery in Cyprus in its long history (11th-20th centuries). The article begins with a brief review of the early centuries of Cypriot monasticism and the foundation of the monastery in the 11th century. Then, the analysis focuses on the economic activities performed during the period of the Ottoman rule (1571-1878). Using primary sources fro…
Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
Globalization and Its Terrors: Daily Life in the West
Transnationalism and Globalization: The Greek Orthodox Diaspora between Orthodox Universalism and Transnational Nationalism
Mapping the Glocal Turn: Literature Streams, Scholarship Clusters and Debates
Based on a bibliographical survey, this article presents evidence of a silent glocal turn in 21st century academia. Several terms compete for describing the newfound situations of hybridity and fusion in the world, and glocalization is a new term that offers a high level of precision in comparison to other contenders. Three specific clusters of inter-disciplinary scholarship are identified as cutting edge areas of research: the study of consumer …
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia
Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the Uses of the Past in Contemporary Greece
The article examines the use of Orthodox Christianity in the debates over the cultural heritage of contemporary Greece. Since the birth of modern Greece, Orthodox Christianity has been used as one of the foundational cultural markers for the construction of Modern Greek national identity. This employment of religion is particularly evident in the case of history in its popularized format. In contemporary cultural politics, debates over the buildi…
Orthodoxy and Modernity in Cyprus: The 2006 Archepiscopal Elections in Historical Perspective
This article offers an analysis of the 2006 Archepiscopal elections of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus (OCC). It uses this analysis to develop an interpretation of the OCC's evolution over the last two centuries. Unlike other Orthodox churches, it is the laity and the clergy—through a system of proxy voting—that elect the OCC's high clergy. In the 2006 elections, the first contested elections since 1950, the contenders and the public divided into m…
Transnational Return and Social Change: Hierarchies, Identities, and Ideas
Nationalism, Globalization, Eastern Orthodoxy: `Unthinking' the `Clash of Civilizations' in Southeastern Europe
Although the historical process of globalization has promoted the nation-state as a universal cultural form, national ideologies are far from uniform. This article explores how the competing discourses of citizenship and nation-hood evolved in Southeastern Europe throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By comparing the articulation of Serb, Greek and Bulgarian identities, the essay examines how regional historical factors led to the co…
Heroes’ and ‘Villains: An Overview of Recent Literature on The Macedonian Question
American Culture in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Preface Introduction America/Europe, Fragile Objects of Discourse by Mike-Frank Epitropoulos and Victor Roudometof The U.S. Center of World Science and Emulating Centers: Japan and Western Europe by Thomas Schott, Jun Kanamitsu, and James F. Luther Peripheries in World Science: Latin America and Eastern Europe by Thomas Schott, et al. The Specter of Amerikanisierung, 1840-1990 by Peter Bergmann The Colonization of the Russian Political and Legal …
Transnationalism and Globalization: The Greek Orthodox Diaspora between Orthodox Universalism and Transnational Nationalism
Communities Across Borders: New Immigrants and Transnational Cultures
1. Introduction: Transnationalism in a Global Age Part I: New Immigrants 2. Migrant Communities and Class: Croatians in Western Australia 3. Greek Americans and Transnationalism: Religion, Class and Community 4. Emergent Diaspora or Immigrant Communities? Turkish Immigrants in the Netherlands 5. Boundaries of Diaspora Identity: the Case of Central and East African-Asians in Canada 6. Transnational Expansion of 'Class Struggle' and the Mediation o…
Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question
Roudometof provides an in-depth analysis of inter-ethnic relations in the southern Balkans. He examines the evolution of the Macedonian Question and the production of rival national narratives by Greeks, Bulgarians, and Macedonians. He introduces the concept of a national narrative in order to account for the production and proliferation of different forms of collective memory among the rival nation-states. Roudometof deconstructs the national na…
Comment [From Victor Roudometof]
Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans
Foreword by Roland Robertson Introduction: Nationalism, Globalization, and Modernity in the Balkans: A World-Historical Perspective A Multidimensional Analysis of the Balkan National Revolutions (Part I) A Multidimensional Analysis of the Balkan National Revolutions (Part II) The Pursuit of Citizenship Invented Traditions, Symbolic Boundaries, and National Identity in Greece and Serbia 1830-1880 The Latecomers, Nationalism in Bulgaria, Macedonia,…
Glocalization, Space, and Modernity 1
Eurocentric narratives fuse the spatial and temporal components of modernity by identifying "modernity" with a specific era in European history. By destabilizing spatial and temporal boundaries, glocalization leads to a reconsideration of modernity. In order to explore the interplay among glocalization, space, and modernity, I suggest a thematization of modernity in terms of form and content. In terms of form, modernity is globalized and this glo…
Globalization and Its Terrors: Daily Life in the West
Response: The Moral Conundrums of the Global Age
Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
Religion and national identity in post-communist Romania
Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Glocalization
Transnationalism was originally connected to recent immigrant cohorts, but the concept has been expanded to include other groups of people, as well as a whole array of activities across borders. Cosmopolitanism is invoked both as a moral and ethical ideal, as well as a lived experience, thereby facilitating confusion between a theorist's prescriptive and descriptive statements. In contemporary scholarship, the presence of transnationalism is ofte…
Greek Orthodoxy, Territoriality, and Globality: Religious Responses and Institutional Disputes
This article offers an interpretation of Greek-Orthodox responses to globality. During globalization's modern period, relativization and de-territorialization led to a modern synthesis between Orthodoxy and nationality. During globalization's contemporary period, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has adopted a relatively open perspective toward globalization, which offers an opportunity to empower the Patriarchate's status as a supra-…
Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations by Mitchell Young, Eric Zuelow and Andreas Sturm (eds.)
Le christianisme orthodoxe au sein de la République de Chypre: Développement institutionnel et attitudes religieuses
Depuis la proclamation de la République de Chypre en 1960 et sa division en deux parties—grecque et turque—en 1974, la société chypriote grecque s'est fortement urbanisée sous l'effet d'une intense modernisation. Les auteurs s'emploient à reconstituer les grandes étapes liées au développement des structures organisationnelles de l'Église orthodoxe de Chypre (EOC). Dans les années soixante, et surtout après le décès de l'évêque Makarios III (en 19…
Redéfinition des frontières Église—État à Chypre après 1878. Perspective historique sur l'Église orthodoxe chypriote
À Chypre, le colonialisme britannique a profondément influencé les relations entre l'Église et l'État. Lors de la période précédente, sous domination ottomane, les membres du haut clergé remplissaient des obligations administratives et politiques, conjuguant ainsi fonctions religieuses et administratives laïques. À partir de 1856, ils obtinrent même davantage de reconnaissance pour leur fonction politique. Pourtant, dès 1878, l'administration bri…
Orthodoxy and Modernity in Cyprus: The 2006 Archepiscopal Elections in Historical Perspective
This article offers an analysis of the 2006 Archepiscopal elections of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus (OCC). It uses this analysis to develop an interpretation of the OCC's evolution over the last two centuries. Unlike other Orthodox churches, it is the laity and the clergy—through a system of proxy voting—that elect the OCC's high clergy. In the 2006 elections, the first contested elections since 1950, the contenders and the public divided into m…
Gusts of Change: The Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions for the Study of Globalization
Since the 1960s, the concepts of the 'global' and the 'transnational' have challenged the state-centred orientation of several disciplines. By 1989, the 'global' contained sufficient ambiguity and conceptual promise to emerge as a potentially new central concept to replace the conventional notion of modernity. The consequences of the 1989 revolutions for this emerging concept were extensive. As a result of the post-communist 'New World Order', a …
Orthodox Christianity in 21st Century Greece: The Role of Religion in Culture, Ethnicity and Politics
Economic Functions of Monasticism in Cyprus: The Case of the Kykkos Monastery
The article presents a comprehensive overview of the various economic activities performed by the Kykkos Monastery in Cyprus in its long history (11th-20th centuries). The article begins with a brief review of the early centuries of Cypriot monasticism and the foundation of the monastery in the 11th century. Then, the analysis focuses on the economic activities performed during the period of the Ottoman rule (1571-1878). Using primary sources fro…
The cosmopolitan-local continuum in cross-national perspective
This article examines whether the cosmopolitan-local continuum is present among advanced industrialized world regions. Strictly comparable factor analyses show that its nation-based and place-based variants are observable across world regions. Results indicate that, from 1995 to 2003 among the regions analyzed, place-based localism is declining everywhere. This finding suggests that globalization's effects on personal lives are consequential in t…
Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the Uses of the Past in Contemporary Greece
The article examines the use of Orthodox Christianity in the debates over the cultural heritage of contemporary Greece. Since the birth of modern Greece, Orthodox Christianity has been used as one of the foundational cultural markers for the construction of Modern Greek national identity. This employment of religion is particularly evident in the case of history in its popularized format. In contemporary cultural politics, debates over the buildi…
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia
Political science (48 works) · Sociology (47 works) · Law (41 works) · Globalization (30 works) · Glocalization (18 works) · Philosophy (18 works) · Politics (17 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (17 works) · Epistemology (16 works) · Social science (15 works)