Globalisation in a Post-Covid World: Locking Down Mobilities

DAVID Morley; WANG Xin

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (3) : 6-18.

Specific Topic / A communication perspective on the mobility and fluidity of societies

Globalisation in a Post-Covid World: Locking Down Mobilities

DAVID Morley ,
WANG Xin

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The article offers a conjunctural analysis of the various factors which must be taken into account in explaining the development of the Covid-19 pandemic. It offers an interdisciplinary perspective on questions of how virtual and material geographies are enmeshed which pays particular attention to the continuing importance of transport infrastructures. The key concerns are with the politics of differential power over - and access to - mobility in both its actual and virtual modalities. The Covid-19 crisis is argued to have functioned both as a mode of amplification of many pre-existing forms of inequality and as a powerful solvent of the unexamined presumptions of the dominant discourse of globalisation.

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Post Covid-19 / globalisation / mobility / locking down / transport infrastructures.

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DAVID Morley , WANG Xin. Globalisation in a Post-Covid World: Locking Down Mobilities[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2021, 43(3): 6-18

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Footnotes

1. 译者加：两位作者创造了一个术语“崩塌学”，为这个跨学科的研究领域命名。这个命名有点小讽刺，因为“崩塌”意味着一个明确无误、不可否认的离散事件：一个结构突然、迅速的内爆。考虑到这一内涵，谈论工业文明的崩溃意味着要冒被怀疑的风险， Servigne和Stevens没有做出预测，也没有进行情景构建。在这一点上，崩塌学不同于旧的未来学，后者倾向于将社会科学和科幻小说混合到不太成熟的预测中。对他们来说，崩塌是以不同的节奏发展的一系列过程，其影响可能因地理而异，并且以违背普遍性的方式相互作用，难以预测。2008年，当全球金融崩溃的幽灵再次出现时，食品价格的急剧上涨，至少在35个国家引发了骚乱，随之而来的是长期的经济增长放缓。事后看来，整个大陆融入更大的交通、通信、供应链和货币流动网络有一个前提，即对经济增长的持续预期以及建立持久的利益和谐。21世纪全球资本主义现有的基础设施，快速运输、长而流畅的供应链、工业化农业、供暖、水净化、互联网等等——是在高 EROI 时期打造的，没有理由期待它会卷土重来。作者说，“最终，现代性不会死于它的后现代哲学创伤，而是因为它已经耗尽了能量。”具体可参考Servigne & Stevens (2020) 以及Mclemee (2020) 。

Funding

Annual Project of Scientific Research Fund of Liaoning Provincial Education Department in 2020 (Basic Research), “Material Turn and Mobility: Research on New Content, Paradigm and Dimension of Communication Development”

2020 Annual Discipline Construction Project of Liaoning University,“A study on the Hundred-year Development History of Transportation and Communication in China from the Perspective of Material Turn of Communication”.

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