Abstract

WIEVIORKA, Michel. Is Global Thinking Still Valid?. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2021, vol.66, n.242, pp.35-47.  Epub Oct 25, 2021. ISSN 0185-1918.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2021.242.79320.

As a result of the outbreak of a such a critical event as the Covid-19 pandemic, social and human sciences have begun to rethink the concepts and ideas that established the complexity of the world in which we live. For instance, wouldn’t “global thinking,” a term coined by Edgar Morin, correspond to a certain historical phase or moment? Isn’t it necessary to at least partially discard that global thinking and deglobalize human, political and social sciences? China’s response to the pandemic reinforced its position of established hegemony in contemporary international power relations, which provided arguments in favor of deglobalization such as the massive reduction of some economic activities directly linked to an open world or the creation of cloistered logics and it valued concrete local relations within a limited environment. Scientific knowledge, also circulating on a global scale, must face the vicissitudes of the pandemic; global thinking structures the modern communication technologies that allow for immediate, interactive reflection, so addressing Covid-19 joined the existing historical thought processes; human, political and social sciences remain linked to multidisciplinarity, but they now must face the pandemic.

Keywords : global thinking; Covid-19; deglobalization; China; human sciences.

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