Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them

Evidence

A feature of displacement is our insertion into globalised cultural and information settings, which means that familiarity and place are much less consistently connected than hitherto. This is less a phenomenon of estrangement from the local than one of integration within globalised “communities” of shared experience. The boundaries of concealment and disclosure become altered, since many erstwhile quite distinct activities are juxtaposed in unitary public domains. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 341

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Luhmann’s system trust and how abstract systems reshape lived experience; also echoes how Stevens in Ishiguro experiences Darlington Hall as a globalised setting. — connects to: Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409; Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 24; Modern organizations routinely connect local and global, affecting millions of lives — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 59 (+11 more)

Related

• Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations (similarity 0.87)
• Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life (similarity 0.87)
• Modern organizations routinely connect local and global, affecting millions of lives (similarity 0.86)
• Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life (similarity 0.85)
• Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems (similarity 0.85)
• Homelessness and rootlessness are developing on unprecedented scales globally (similarity 0.85)
• Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity (similarity 0.84)
• Uprooting and statelessness define modern global society (similarity 0.84)
• Modernity does not replace intimacy with impersonality but transforms it through distancing (similarity 0.82)
• Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface (similarity 0.80)
• Self-fulfilment can positively appropriate globalised influences rather than retreat (similarity 0.80)
• Declaring oneself host of a locale legitimizes initiating contact there (similarity 0.79)
• Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation (similarity 0.79)
• Modernity transforms the stranger from a whole suspect person into a fleeting contact. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Individualization loosens ties with the near to enable ties with the distant #expands (0.65) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 603
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself #contradicts (0.60)