Globalisation: How? (6pm, Thursday 22nd October)

The USA will elect their next President on November 3rd. We need it to herald a new era of progressive globalisation. To discuss the election and in particular what it means for globalisation we will be joined by:
  • Lisa Nandy MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary
  • Dr Dena Freeman, LSE and author of Can Globalisation Succeed
  • Anthony Barnett, Cofounder of OpenDemocracy and author Out of the Belly of Hell: COVID-19 and the Humanisation of Globalisation.
  • Neal Lawson (chair)

This event will both kick of a series of events to demonstrate how we Build Back Better and be the start of longer set of conversations with Lisa Nandy as she develops how a progressive internationalism fits with the challenges and opportunities people experience in the daily lives. Globalisation is shaping us in good ways and bad. What sort of globalisation do we want and how do we make our vision happen?

The conversation starts by looking at the problems and paradoxes of globalisation. The late sociologist Zygmunt Bauman talked about 'the separation of power from politics and politics from power' caused by globalisation. This separation is still present, but this is becoming more transparent. The technology that has allowed financial flows to circumvent the globe, now also connects us. The COVID pandemic is possibly the first in human history where in many nations and places people have been put before profit. There is now an emerging global human awareness and an ability for communities to organise at speed and some scale. What does all this mean for the future of progressive politics?

In future conversation and events Lisa will explore, with others, the impact of globalisation on social polarisation and the rise of populism. She will discuss the global institutions of the 21st Century we need and where and how progressive governments are creating alternatives.

These events are co-hosted by Compass and London office of the FES.

It is also part of of Compass' Build Back Better: How? programme of events taking place from 22nd October to 31st October.

Contact info@compassonline.org.uk for more information or technical support.




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