An archaeology of the global era: constructing a belief
- 1 September 2002
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Media, Culture & Society
- Vol. 24 (5) , 591-612
- https://doi.org/10.1177/016344370202400502
Abstract
Beliefs in the coming of the global era confuse our understanding of the complexity of contemporary processes of world integration. Absorption in the latest that high-tech IT has to offer is conjoined with the flourishing of mythologies that celebrate the virtues of techno-global networks. By resituating the planetary process of unification in the longue durée, we may escape a one-sided vision of the destiny of the so-called ‘great human family’. It is against this fatalism that the new social movements are presently mobilizing themselves.Keywords
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