Uprooting and statelessness define modern global society

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 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Modernity is inherently globalising, and the unsettling consequences of this phenomenon combine with the circularity of its reflexive character to form a universe of events in which risk and hazard take on a novel character. The globalising tendencies of modernity are simultaneously extensional and intensional—they connect individuals to large-scale systems as part of complex dialectics of change at both local and global poles. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409 (#expands, via linked claim)

This is a dialectical process because such local happenings may move in an obverse direction from the very distanciated relations that shape them. Local transformation is as much a part of globalisation as the lateral extension of social connections across time and space. … The increasing prosperity of an urban area in Singapore might be causally related, via a complicated network of global economic ties, to the impoverishment of a neighbourhood in Pittsburgh whose local products are uncompetitive in world markets. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 167 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Statelessness is unprecedented not in exile but in finding no new home; Uprootedness can precede and enable becoming superfluous; Homelessness and rootlessness are developing on unprecedented scales globally (+5 more)

Related

• Homelessness and rootlessness are developing on unprecedented scales globally (similarity 0.93)
• Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them (similarity 0.84)
• Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems (similarity 0.82)
• Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life (similarity 0.78)
• Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them #contradicts (0.85) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 341
• Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems #expands (0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409
• Globalisation produces mutually opposed tendencies, not uniform worldwide change #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 167
• Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface #qualifies (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 166