Some reflections on ‘How should we think about globalization in a postglobalization era?’

Abstract

In ‘How Should We Think About Globalization in A Post Globalization Era?’, Victor Roudometof posits that since 9/11 – that is, the start of the twenty-first century – we have been living in a postglobalization era, by which he means an era marked by the breakdown of the 1990s Washington consensus of neoliberal, economic policy-oriented globalization. He then outlines ways to think about globalization for this new era via redefining integral versus interactive globalization beyond modernization and westernization. While moving away from modernization as telos and Western-centrism is a good idea, one cannot erase the colonial/modern project and its impact globally. Perhaps in the future we may see a different kind of integral and interactive globalization, but for now the modern/colonial imprint still reverberates, and dismissing it is irresponsible.