The Revolutionary Socialist Network, Workers
NC -- Ext -- Cosmpolitics
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2NC -- Ext -- CosmpoliticsCap bad, cosmopolitics goodPadilla ’21 [Luis-Alberto; 2021; president of the board of the Guatemalan International Relations & Peace Research Institute (IRIPAZ), member of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), former Secretary General of the Latin American Council on Peace Research (CLAIP), Director of the Diplomatic Academy, Former Vice Minister, former ambassador in Chile, former permanent representative to the United Nations at the Vienna International Centre, former ambassador to Austria, former ambassador to the Russian Federation, former ambassador to the Netherlands, permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, and professor of the Seminar of World Geopolitics at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Catholic University Rafael Landivar (URL) of Guatemala; Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene, “The Cosmopolitan Approach of Ulrich Beck,” Ch. 6.1, p. 288-289] SPark On these pages I have presented the idea that the Anthropocene is not just a new geological epoch that replaces the Holocene but must additionally be understood as a normative cultural model based on the transdisciplinary holistic and cosmopolitan paradigm that unifies social and cultural sciences. Regarding the latter, my main goal is to make a contribution to academic understanding about ways to mitigate the Great Acceleration of GHG emissions endangering the survival of our species due to climate change threats, which are also closely related to the prevailing neoliberal economic model that misguidedly puts the accumulation of capital and economic growth over human needs and respect for natural ecosystems as the most important purpose of production and even of human individual lives. This is why I argue that the crucial alternative in the face of the global pandemic (aggravated by the dismantling of welfare and health systems in countries under the influence of neoliberalism, such as the US and some European and Latin American countries) and the threats of climate change is to abandon the pernicious worshipping of ‘markets’ or face the sixth mass extinction that science is foreseeing unless we change the predominant neoliberal mindset and prevailing economic policies. Evidently, everybody must realize that the way out of the crisis cannot be found in a national manner with isolated national policies. Something we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that international cooperation is vital; developing vaccines and avoiding the increase in contagions and deaths would have been impossible if all countries of the world had not collaborated and shared knowledge, information, medical equipment and all kind of resources, including financial means.1 This is where the transnational cosmopolitan paradigm that I will be discussing on the following pages enters the scene, because a change in mindset from the conventional nationally or ethnically centred mentality to a world-centric cosmopolitan way of thinking is absolutely necessary. This change in the theoretical approach of social sciences from methodological nationalism to a cosmopolitan focus is fundamental because, as Beck argues, the cosmopolitan critique is not about nation-state sovereignty or why it has been subordinated to the forces of globalization, but about the power potentials, strategies and organizational forms of politics without borders (‘de-bounded’) which allow new actors (and networks of actors) from global civil society to influence the world scenario Download 2.09 Mb. Share with your friends:
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