The Global-Local Dialectic: Challenges for African Scholarship and Social Work in a Post-Colonial World

Abstract

This paper addresses the global–local dialectic in respect of the convergence and divergence of culture and democracy, and the consequences of neo-liberal capitalism. The argument is that while the globalization of people has produced some gains, the globalization of capital has created a world of unbridled consumerism, individualism and greed with the maintenance of a capitalist ideological hegemony that precludes our search for alternatives and, indeed, limits our very ability to think outside the system. The paper concludes with a call for the development of a counter-hegemonic consciousness to neo-liberal capitalism and a commitment to redistributive justice as we envision another world order.

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