Lecturer: Tuomas Martikainen, religious studies, University of Turku.
Roland Robertson (1938-2022) adapted the concept of glocalization from business studies to social theory, including sociology of religion, in the early 1990s. Discussing the junctures of locality and globality, he further developed the discussion in the seminal article “Glocalization: Time-space and homogeneity-heterogeneity” (1995). Robertson’s work was simultaneous with the expansion of globalization theory and several other theorists made related efforts at the time, including Jan Nederveen Pieterse on hybribity and Arjun Appadurai on global scapes. The presentation discusses these theoretical advances with hindsight and looks at their further development as well current usefulness.
Chair: Göran Larsson