Politics in the Post- Globalization Era ( Re- Reading the Ideas of Jacque Ranciere)

Document Type : Research Paper

Abstract

The idea of transition from globalization has long been discussed in the elite academic circles of the world, especially the west. Although this subject is fundamentally economic; but, it has serious cultural and identity-related foundations. In the process of this transition, there have been substantial re- readings of the components, principles, signs, referents, examples, processes, structures and approaches. One of these concepts that has been transformed in its transition towards the post-globalization era is politics. According to the hypothesis of this article, in the present situation of transition and in the shade of the emergence of an era which may be called the late postmodernism or post-postmodernism, politics has got a different meaning in both theory and practice in comparison with the past. In the new formulation, this principle is understood in a plural, identity-based, society-centered, unstructured and pervasive context. This article intends to revisit and re- read Jacque Ranciere’s concept of politics and   gain an appropriate and rational understanding of this concept in the post-globalization era. Ranciere is the representative of a new spectrum of socio-political researchers. He tries to systematically introduce some concepts such as police, structural understanding of democracy, post-democracy, justice, oligarchy, the aesthetic foundations of politics, the true politics, archaic politics, meta-politics and para-politics etc.  to understand and theorize the concept of politics with regard to the elitist necessities and the appended socio-political foundations of transition era of globalization.

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