The Global Nexus: Political Economies, Connectivity, and the Social
Sciences is a provocative critique of the social sciences in the
age of neoconservative and alt-right globalisation sweeping across
modern democracies globally. The writer persuasively argues that
the mainstream western social science modality of describing
indigenous knowledge and sub-altern discourses as 'alternative
knowledge' is due for serious review, for it describes, devalues,
and renders it the same renegade status as the 'alternate
realities' of the alt-right, neo-conservative agencies of Western
and Asian governments. The abuse of indigenous knowledge by
neoconservative governments to promote racism, ethno-centricities,
and misogyny has also reduced vital sources of local knowledge to
fodder, only salvaged by 'the good press' - specialists of the
media in investigative journalism, communications, and literature,
who propose that worldviews and ideas of the underclasses,
including women, migrants, minorities, refugees, war prisoners, and
refugees should be brought to the fore and 'mainstreamed' for the
reader to understand that the stories they tell and their reasons
why tell them, are closer to truth than fiction. These lost voices,
often silenced, suppressed, and understated, generate new knowledge
of the marginalised and disadvantaged sectors of modern society,
reflecting the social realities of globalisation.Focusing on
Southeast Asia with comparisons across nations in the Levant and
the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, Wazir Jahan Karim
vividly demonstrates how plural political economies have emerged
and rendered flaws in the globalisation process. As powerful elites
compete to accumulate and control wealth, power, and vital global
resources, the growing phenomenon of global agencing, wealth- and
poverty-generating institutions exist together in complex networks
of hierarchical relationships, strategies, and alliances, with dire
consequences for those on the receiving end of the global spectrum.
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