Beyond global modernity, global consciousness and global governmentality
The symmetrical anthropology of globalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2398144 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean-Sébastien Guy (Dalhousie University), Jean‐Sébastien Guy (0000-0002-3772-1667, Dalhousie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 451-467 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431016655066 |
| OpenAlex | W2434030348 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 22 |
The article combines the research strategies developed by Bruno Latour and Niklas Luhmann to problematize how we interpret the world when discussing globalization. Two previous approaches - global modernity and global consciousness - interpret the world as completely objective (nature transcends culture). Another approach - global governmentality - interprets the world as completely subjective (culture transcends nature). Against these approaches, this article proposes a new one: the symmetrical anthropology (or sociology) of globalization. Inspired by Latour's variable ontologies, it considers multiple descriptions of the world and multiple descriptions of society simultaneously. It considers globalization as one description of society and searches for the description of the world corresponding to it. It distinguishes three descriptions of the world: (1) the world as natural order; (2) the world as external object; and (3) the world as levels of organization. It is argued that the description of the world that is the most closely connected with globalization is the third one
Consciousness · Epistemology · Global citizenship · Globalization · Governmentality · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · World-system · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Globalization and political ideologies · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Understanding Understanding
Evolution in Four Dimensions
Cognition in the Wild
Global Governmentality
Theories of Distinction
Globalization
Reassembling the Social
Globalization as Governmentality
The global animus
From republican virtue to global imaginary
Against Essentialism
The Division of Labour in Society
From self-reference to autology
The Ecumenical Analytic
Why does society describe itself as global? Re-examining the relation between globalization and the states from a second-order perspective
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |