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Event Title: Globalization and the Great Unsettling: The Production of the Unhappy Consciousness
Description: This presentation explores the complex and subtle dynamics involved in the production and representation of the global-local nexus in current everyday life. Its socio-historical context is the destabilization of the early twenty-first century globalization system starting with the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, continuing with the populist explosion in the mid-2010s, and climaxing in the 2020 Global Coronavirus Pandemic.