Time and the global: Research directions

Abstract

The global can be encapsulated as a geospatial sphere constituted by geological strata, landforms, sea, biotic life, the human species, and the surrounding biosphere. Globalization as a geospatial concept registers the world-spanning in-teractions of human migration, trade, war, conquest, transport, and communication over historical time. Its contemporary usage spread among academics and journalists once the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Consequent Soviet Bloc disinte-gration ended fi rst, second and third world demarcations. This terminology was quickly replaced by a globalization nomenclature comprised of networks, vectors, hybridities, transnationality, and the space of fl ows. Left activist scholars advanced an oppositional discourse centered around the categories of global capitalism, transnational capitalism, empire, multitude, alter-globalization, and globalization from below. Globalization-related research coincided with the diffusion of spatial thinking across geography, architecture, urban/regional planning, economics, anthropology, cultural, and post-colonial studies. The underlying premise was that western metanarratives of economic and techno-logical progress along with the counter-narratives of Marxism and critical theory were losing intellectual purchase. research here there time as The process is subtle; the a necessary Time is plural, multifaceted, a constitutive of institutions, power structures, ideologies, civil social perspective, globality is not just a