Globalization and Utopia

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1 Globalization and Utopia

2 Also by Patrick Hayden and Chamsy el-ojeili CONFRONTING GLOBALIZATION: Humanity, Justice and the Renewal of Politics (edited) CRITICAL THEORIES OF GLOBALIZATION Also by Patrick Hayden POLITICAL EVIL IN A GLOBAL AGE: Hannah Arendt and International Theory JOHN RAWLS: Towards a Just World Order COSMOPOLITAN GLOBAL POLITICS Also by Chamsy el-ojeili FROM LEFT COMMUNISM TO POST-MODERNISM: Reconsidering Emancipatory Discourse

3 Globalization and Utopia Critical Essays Edited by Patrick Hayden University of St Andrews, UK Chamsy el-ojeili Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

4 Selection and editorial matter Patrick Hayden and Chamsy el-ojeili 2009 Individual chapters their respective authors 2009 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified asthe authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act First published 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered inengland, company number , of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Globalization and utopia : critical essays / edited by Patrick Hayden, Chamsy el-ojeili. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Globalization. 2. Utopias. I. Hayden, Patrick, 1965 II. el-ojeili, Chamsy. JZ1318.G dc

5 Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors vii viii Introduction: Reflections on the Demise and Renewal of Utopia in a Global Age 1 Patrick Hayden and Chamsy el-ojeili Part I Globalization and Utopianism: Theoretical Connections 1 Placing Utopia: Some Classical Images 13 Peter Beilharz and Christine Ellem 2 Globalization as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere 28 Jeffrey C. Alexander 3 Two Post-Marxisms: Beyond Post-Socialism? 40 Chamsy el-ojeili 4 Globalization, Reflexive Utopianism, and the Cosmopolitan Social Imaginary 51 Patrick Hayden 5 After Utopia: Notes on an Ethics of Newness 68 Leela Gandhi 6 Postsecularism: A New Global Debate 82 Gregor McLennan Part II Critical Perspectives on Utopian Visions in a Global Age 7 After 1989: Globalization, Normalization, and Utopia 101 Larry Ray v

6 vi Contents 8 Made in America: The Unsustainable All-Consuming Global Free-Market Utopia 117 Barry Smart 9 Islamutopia, (Post)Modernity and the Multitude 137 Arshin Adib-Moghaddam 10 Utopias Without Transcendence? Post-Left Anarchy, Immediacy and Utopian Energy 156 Andrew Robinson and Simon Tormey 11 Libertarian Cyber-Utopianism and Global Digital Networks 176 Lincoln Dahlberg 12 (Con)Temporary Utopian Spaces 190 Giorel Curran 13 Glocalization and the New Local Transnationalisms: Real Utopias in Liminal Spaces 207 Ronaldo Munck 14 The Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola: Lefebvre, Utopia and the Recuperation of Everyday Life 220 Michael E. Gardiner Concluding Reflections 237 Patrick Hayden and Chamsy el-ojeili Bibliography 243 Index 269

7 Acknowledgements The editors and publishers wish to thank the following for kind permission to reproduce copyright material: Springer Science and Business Media for Jeffrey C. Alexander, Globalization as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere, from Ino Rossi (ed.), Frontiers of Globalization Research: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches, Springer (2007), pp We would also like to thank all of this project s contributors for their insights, expertise, and enthusiasm. Our editor at Palgrave Macmillan, Philippa Grand, encouraged the book from its inception. We are grateful as well to Aidan MacLeod for his invaluable assistance in preparing the index. Both of us acknowledge most of all our families, who have provided a great deal of support during the long process of preparing the book for publication. vii

8 Notes on Contributors Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is the author of The International Politics of the Persian Gulf: A Cultural Genealogy (Routledge, 2006), Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic (Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2007/2008), and A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations (Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2009). Educated at an evangelical private school in Germany and the University of Hamburg, American (DC) and Cambridge, he was elected the first Jarvis Doctorow Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. He teaches comparative politics and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University. He works in the areas of theory, culture, and politics. An exponent of the strong program in cultural sociology, Alexander has investigated the cultural codes and narratives that inform diverse areas of social life. He is the author of Culture and Society in Transition: A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology with Kenneth Thompson (Paradigm Publishers, 2008), The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology (Oxford University Press, 2003), Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity (University of California Press, 2004, with Eyerman, Giesen, Smelser, and Sztompka),and The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim (2005), which he has edited with Philip Smith. With Bernhard Giesen and Jason Mast, he is the editor of Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual (Cambridge University Press, 2006). In the field of politics, Alexander has written The Civil Sphere (Oxford University Press, 2006), which includes discussions of gender, race, and religion, as well as new theorizing about social movements and incorporation. PeterBeilharz is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia. He is author or editor of 23 books, most recently Socialism and Modernity (2009). Giorel Curran is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Policy and researcher in the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, viii

9 Notes on Contributors ix Griffith University, Australia. Her research focuses on green political theory, theories of democracy, environmental politics and policy, and contemporary ideology. She has recently published 21st Century Dissent: Anarchism, Anti-Globalization and Environmentalism (Palgrave, 2006). Lincoln Dahlberg teaches and researches in the areas of media politics, critical theory, and digital democracy. Hehaspublished extensively in these areas and is co-editor of Radical Democracy and the Internet (Palgrave, 2007). He is currently based in the School of Journalism and Communication at The University of Queensland, Australia. Christine Ellem is a PhD candidate in Sociology at La Trobe University. Her doctoral research considers the history of utopian thought in the Antipodes with a particular focus on late nineteenth-century flows of cultural traffic between Britain and America and their peripheries, Australia and New Zealand. Chamsy el-ojeili is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of From Left Communism to Post-Modernism: Reconsidering Emancipatory Discourse (University Press of America, 2003), co-author (with Patrick Hayden) of Critical Theories of Globalization (Palgrave, 2006), and co-editor (with Patrick Hayden) of Confronting Globalization: Humanity, Justice and the Renewal of Politics (Palgrave, 2005). Leela Gandhi is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Her publications include Postcolonial Theory (Columbia University Press, 1998), Measures of Home (Ravi Dayal, 2000), the co-authored, England Through Colonial Eyes (Palgrave, 2001), and Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin de Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship (Duke University Press, 2006). She is a founding co-editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies. Michael E. Gardiner is Professor in Sociology at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. His books include the edited four-volume collection Mikhail Bakhtin: Masters of Modern Social Thought (Sage, 2003), Critiques of Everyday Life (Routledge, 2000), Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words (Sage, 1998, co-edited with Michael M. Bell), and The Dialogics of Critique: M. M. Bakhtin and the Theory of Ideology (Routledge, 1992), aswell as numerous articles dedicated to dialogical social theory, ethics, everyday life, and utopianism. More recently he

10 x Notes on Contributors has co-edited (with Gregory J. Seigworth) a special double issue of the journal Cultural Studies, with the title Rethinking Everyday Life: And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Routledge, 2004). Patrick Hayden is Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His interests include international political theory, critical social theory, human rights, globalization, and global ethics. He is the author of Political Evil in a Global Age: Hannah Arendt and International Theory (Routledge, 2009), Critical Theories of Globalization (Palgrave, 2006, with Chamsy el-ojeili), Cosmopolitan Global Politics (Ashgate, 2005), and John Rawls: Towards a Just World Order (University of Wales Press, 2002). Gregor McLennan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol. Author or editor of books on Marxism, pluralism, ideology, and the state, he has published a range of articles in recent years on questions of explanation, Eurocentrism, complexity theory, critical realism, postpositivism, and new styles of cultural sociology. These themes were systematized in Sociological Cultural Studies: Reflexivity and Positivity in the Human Sciences (Palgrave, 2006). He is currently developing a book-length argument about postsecularism and social theory. Ronaldo Munck has written widely on Latin America, labour struggles and, more recently, on globalization and its discontents. He is currently part of Dublin City University s matrix model management in charge of internationalization and social development ( He edits a new glocal journal called Translocations ( ie). His main research is focused on globalization and human security. Larry Ray has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, UK since His research and publications include social theory, globalization, post-communism, and the sociology of violence. Recent publications include Theorizing Classical Sociology (Open University Press, 1999), Key Contemporary Social Theorists (Blackwell, 2002, co-edited with Anthony Elliott), Social Theory and Postcommunism (Blackwell, 2005, with William Outhwaite), and Globalization and Everyday Life, (Routledge, 2007). He is currently working on social memory and Jewish cultural revivals inpoland and is writing a book on Violence and Society. Andrew Robinson is an activist and post-doctoral research fellow attached to the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice

11 Notes on Contributors xi in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. He is the author of many articles for journals such as Utopian Studies, Theory & Event, and Thesis Eleven. His research interests are varied and encompass political agency and radical practices as well as political thought. He writes regularly for activist outlets and has been involved in a variety of campaigns combating exclusion and surveillance in the United Kingdom. Barry Smart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Portsmouth and is the author of several books on social theory and the transformation of late modern societies. Publications include Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies (Routledge, 1992), Facing Modernity: Ambivalence, Reflexivity and Morality (Sage, 1999), Economy, Culture & Society: A Sociological Critique of Neo-Liberalism (Open University Press, 2003), and The Sport Star: Modern Sport and the Cultural Economy of Sporting Celebrity (Sage, 2005). He also edited Resisting McDonaldization (Sage, 1999) and is the co-editor of the Handbook of Social Theory (Sage, 2001). He is currently working on a book on the consequences of the globalization of consumer culture. Simon Tormey was Professor of Politics and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham before joining the University of Sydney in 2009 as Professor and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences. He has published numerous books and articles including, most recently, Key Thinkers from Critical Theory to Post-Marxism (Sage, 2006); Anti-Capitalism: A Beginner s Guide (Oneworld, 2004) and Agnes Heller: Socialism, Autonomy and the Postmodern (Manchester University Press, 2001). He is an Associate Editor of Contemporary Political Theory.