Globalization after Covid: the rise of apocalyptic global consciousness

Didem Buhari

Chapter 7 in A Modern Guide to Globalization, 2025, pp 171-187 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter discusses Roland Robertson's theorization of the future of globalization with a focus on the concept of global consciousness. For Robertson, mainstream globalization literature overemphasizes the territorial and connectivity aspects of the current form of globalization. Against the resurging deglobalization thesis, Robertson argues that rising fears about global climate crisis, natural disasters, cybersecurity threats, terrorism, and the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the rise of a “fractured form of global consciousness” that implies a multiplicity of worldviews on how to reimagine and transform the world. He thinks that there is uncertainty around the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the existing divisions in the world (East/West, North/South) and the place of religion today. For Robertson, the main focus should be the resurgence of apocalyptic thinking as a cause of changes in intercivilizational relations in the Anthropocene age.

Keywords: Roland Robertson; Global consciousness; Covid-19; Crisis; Apocalypse; Intercivilizational relations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802205688
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