Globalisation - critical recontructions (review essay)

Lebeda, Petr (author)

The current process of globalisation has been subject to increasing resistance. This essay reviews three books that attempt to substantiate the critique and explores perspectives of political alternatives. First, the nature of globalisation is deconstructed as a global, but exlusivist, political project, which is run through the nation-states, weakened as they are. Political responses to such instability vary - from modernisation approaches, regional co-operation and transnational solidarity, to right-wing backlash politics. On top of their particular idiosyncracies, such mainstream responses are based on the dominance of the nation-state, the global North, and give up on a systemic change. The reconstructive postmodernism suggested by the books instead syntheses the structuralist and postmodern approaches. Concepts such as politics of place, normative democracy or various post-development experiments are already practised by the emerging global civil society. Finally, the theoretical contributions are contrasted with the promises and limitations of the current politics of resistance, namely the Porto Alegre movement

• Language: English
• Keywords: alternatives, Porto Alegre movement, reconstructive postmodernism, resistance, World Social Forum
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2003
• Number of pages: Str. 185-199, 218, 220
• Numbering: Vol. 6, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-135837
• UDC: 32
• ISSN on article: 1408-6980
• COBISS.SI-ID: 22978909
• Publication date in RUL: 30.03.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of international relations and development
• Shortened title: J. int. relat. & dev.
• Publisher: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre of International Relations
• ISSN: 1408-6980
• COBISS.SI-ID: 76065792

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Globalizacija - kritične rekonstrukcije (pregledni znanstveni članek)

Abstract

Proces globalizacije povzroča naraščajoč odpor. Prispevek ocenjuje tri knjige, ki poskušajo utemeljiti kritiko, in proučuje perspektive za politične alternative. Najprej dekonstruira naravo globalizacije kot globalni, vendar ekskluzivni politični projekt, ki poteka prek oslabljenih nacionalnih držav. Politični odgovori na tovrstno nestabilnost so različni - od modernizacijskih pristopov, regionalnega sodelovanja in transnacionalne solidarnosti do desničarskih, nazadnjaških politik. Poleg teh specifičnih idiosinkracij prevladujoči odgovori izhajajo iz dominantnosti nacionalne države in globalnega Severa in se odpovedujejo sistemskim spremembam. Namesto tega obravnavane knjige predlagajo rekonstruktivni postmodernizem, ki združuje strukturalistične in postmodernistične pristope. Pojme, kot so politika prostora (place in ne space), normativna demokracija ali različni porazvojni eksperimenti, že uporablja nastajajoča globalna civilna družba. Na koncu avtor primerja te teoretične prispevke z obljubami in omejitvami aktualne politike odpora oz. tako imenovanega gibanja Porto Alegre.

• Keywords: alternative, gibanje Porto Alegre, rekonstruktivni postmodernizem, odpor, Svetovni socialni forum