Covid-19 : the child of globalisation or the mother of de-globalisation?

Svetličič, Marjan (author)

The objective of the article was to evaluate the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic and globalisation (GLO) and de-globalisation (de-GLO) tendencies. Based on a theoretical evaluation of this relationship as well as historical development, it concludes that Covid-19 is not the mother of de-GLO but its child, born in a completely new global context facilitating the pandemic. The roots of the pandemic's conception are more deeply embedded in the capitalist system, in its principal elements (market system, consumerist development model...). GLO as a global division of labour is not over; the factors enhancing GLO are winning over those slowing it down, provided that GLO becomes more egalitarian and more human. A fully-fledged de-GLO would be inefficient and painful. While the pandemic is not a black swan, it could have been predicted. Such an unprecedented crisis impersonated by the pandemic also offers an opportunity to fundamentally rethink of our theories, way of life and development paradigm and, not the least, the whole system to be better prepared for future similar crises.

• Language: English
• Keywords: globalization, deglobalization, development models, anthropocentrism, GLO
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication date: 30.09.2021
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 860-881, 930
• Numbering: Letn. 58, št. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-138751
• UDC: 005.44:616-036.21
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.58.3.860-881
• COBISS.SI-ID: 83918851
• Publication date in RUL: 12.08.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Covid-19 : otrok globalizacije ali mati deglobalizacije?

Abstract

Cilj članka je bila ocena razmerja med pandemijo Covida-19 in težnjami globalizacije (GLO) in deglobalizacije (de-GLO). Na podlagi teoretične analize odnosa in zgodovinskega razvoja ugotavlja, da Covid-19 ni mati de-GLO, temveč otrok, rojen v povsem novem globalnem kontekstu, ki omogoča pandemije. Vzroki pandemije so globlje zakoreninjeni v kapitalističnem antropocentričnem sistemu. GLO kot globalna delitev dela me bo izumrla; dejavniki, ki krepijo GLO, zmagujejo nad tistimi, ki jo upočasnjujejo, s pogojem, da postane GLO bolj egalitarna, človeška. Kompletna de-GLO bi bila neučinkovita in boleča. Pandemija ni črni labod, vendar bi jo lahko predvideli. Takšna kriza brez primere, ki jo predstavlja pandemija, ponuja tudi priložnost za temeljit premislek naših teorij, načina življenja, razvojne paradigme in nenazadnje celotnega sistema, da se bolje pripravimo na prihodnje podobne krize.

• Keywords: globalizacija, deglobalizacija, razvojni modeli, antropocentrizem, GLO