Covid-19 and Global Networks: Reframing our understanding of globalization and transnationalism

Abstract

transnationalism,fundamentallychangingthepracticesoftransnationalactorsandtheirconstituentnetworksinboth global and local affairs. Those global networks between individuals, family-members, firms, social groups, and organizations have been disrupted and reframed to produce new forms of capital flows, labour mobilities, communication technologies, and social–economic–political and cultural relationships. Such disruptions have transcended territorial borderspresentingsignificantchallengestostates,firms,cities,andgovernance.Covid-19hasfundamentallyredrawn our understanding of research focused on (a) transnational social sciences perspectives; (b) networks, flows, connections, and disconnections; (c) human agency and ‘globalization from below’; and (d) the future of globalization and transnationalism.