global imaginary

is people's growing consciousness of belonging to a global community which erupts with increasing destabilizes and unsettles the parameters of national and local communal existence.

referring to people's growing consciousness of belonging to a global community. This is not to say that national and local communal frameworks have lost their power to provide people with a meaningful sense of home and identity. But it would be a mistake to close one's eyes to the weakening of the national imaginary. As the global imaginary erupts with increasing frequency within and onto the national and local, it destabilizes and unsettles the conventional parameters of understanding within which people imagine their communal existence. As we shall see in later chapters, the rising global imaginary is also powerfully reflected in the current transformation of political ideologies the ideas and beliefs that go into the articulation of concrete political agendas and programmes. (Steger 2009: 10)

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global imaginary