The era of globalization began with colonialism, the great discoveries, the great inventions, commerce, industrialization, consumerism and capitalism which, at different times, involved the entire planet. There globalization is not over and it remains the predominant paradigm of growth and well-being. On the other hand, it is a common opinion that an important rethinking is needed, especially after the affirmation of the issues related to population growth, environmental risks, ultra-generational debt, new technologies, social inequalities and, obviously, the post-covid health, work and economic emergency. Re-globalization means re-configure strategic prerogatives and the supply-chain planetary. Only the G20 countries can effectively re-form the paradigm for a new re-globalization. The difficulties are evident and are mainly driven by the interests of the strongest countries, but the aspiration for growth and prosperity should be generalised, otherwise we would go back to a dominant regionalisation.
Apart from the themes mentioned above there are others relevant topics of a more anthropocentric nature which should enter the general reflection and the main agenda.• Identity crisis of the post-covid generations. The generations that currently live together will have different syndromic, existential and identity reactions and could re-establish their priorities according to the real possibilities of self-realization and socialisation. Priority could unquestionably be given to young people for obvious reasons.• City and out of town. The new methods of the world of work and teaching could significantly change the current relationship between urban life/extra-urban life and establish new nerve centers different from those we know today. In combination, even free time (holiday) could undergo changes.• Social mobility. The previous themes could have an effect on social mobility by slowing down and flattening those necessary upward changes present in the post-industrial society. This theme is very open and includes the working situation, status and social stratification in its various components of income, standard of living and social condition. • Culture and art. The men and women of creativity and art (Richard Florida's creative class) could take back a central founding role of a modern proactive, concrete and stimulating cultural movement, aimed at identifying and supporting new and pulsating social meanings of aggregation. Ultimately, what we might expect is a new morphology and geography of globalization sensiblyand different and, hopefully better, than the one we have known up to now and, therefore, it becomes important to consider the central themes but also the parallel ones, especially those with a strongly anthropocentric component.
“In this new world, men are asked to seek private solutions to problems of social origin, rather than solutions of social origin to private problems.” Zygmunt Bauman
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