ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

本文详细阐述了我们关于当前全球分裂加剧的中心论点的术语。我们介绍了我们参与的全球化理论的一个关键维度，它可以有效地被带到前台来理解这些分裂和紧张。这篇文章仔细研究了两个关键时刻，将当前的全球 Covid 危机与 2008-2009 年的全球金融危机进行了比较。它得出的结论是，我们在本地和全球生活方式的巨大脱节对全球与本地的关系产生了不协调的影响，但并未导致积极的转变。相反，它们都是我们一直称之为“大动荡”的长期转变的表达。没有反身的反练习，