[ecrea] The Fifth Dimension - Globalization. Session. Places, People, Stories

The Fifth Dimension - Globalization. Session. Places, People, Stories. An interdisciplinary&  international conference. Linnaeus University, Kalmar 28-30 September 2011

http://lnu.se/om-lnu/konferenser/places-people-stories-2011/the-fifth-dimension---globalization-

There are number of significant and influential conceptualizations of globalization in circulation today. A vast majority of them rest on three-dimensional assumptions of territorial places that embrace longitude, latitude and height. Places are territories governed, administered, delineated and controlled by states, and legitimated by unifying stories of nation. Globalization here is narrated as complex internationalizations – the distant relations between sovereign nation states. Other conceptualizations of globalization extend beyond three-dimensional straitjackets towards post-national dimensions. Conceptualized as processes, globalization is neither predictable nor precise. Rather, it is uneven, multidirectional, expanding and contracting. Beck (2000) alerts us to the limitations of modernist understandings of globalization processes. Scholte (2000) conceptualizes globalizing processes that contain transplanetary contact as a fourth dimension. Transworld spaces are created when interrelated political, corporate, social or culturing practices and products are disembedded from their original locations and re-embedded – often expressed as glocalization (Robertson, 1995). Furthermore, globalizing processes share other entangled dimensions, such as simultaneity, acceleration, interconnectivity, and standardization (Eriksen, 2007). These spaces include arenas of global cultural flows (Appadurai, 1990) impacting economies, cultures and politics, imaginary practices (like desires and dreams) and linguistic practices (like multiple uses of ‘g-words’ in communication). Yet, as these transplanetary contacts, flows and practices intermingle with territorial space, the vista of a fifth dimension of globalizing processes – the creation of the supranational space - opens. The fifth dimension is a space that cannot be reduced to liberalization, complex internationalization, Westernization or universalization (Scholte, 2004).
We wish to investigate the following questions in particular:

What values, interests and strategies are invested or contested in stories on space?
How do stories on globalization narrate, frame and enact the links between territorial place and transworld spaces?
In what ways are existing boundaries redrawn, and how may emergent delimitations of the fifth dimension be conceptualized?
This session invites papers which explore and/or chart such emergent spaces from a variety of fields and perspectives. These may include fields such as politics, geography, technologies, communication or business, and perspectives such as discourse or knowledge asymmetries.

Contact: Iris Rittenhofer (iri /at/ asb.dk)





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