Dear friends, dear colleagues,
we have just published
ProtoSociology Vol. 37 2020
Populism and Globalization
Edited by Barrie Axford and Manfred B. Steger
https://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=protosociology&fq=protosociology%2FVolume%2F8963%7C37%2F

Abstracts
https://www.academia.edu/45757399/ProtoSociology_Vol_37_Populism_and_Globalization_Edited_by_Barrie_Axford_and_Manfred_B_Steger

This issue of "Protosociology Vol. 37 Populism and Globalization" will address an intriguing and troubling facet of the current ‘populist’ phase of global constitution; one that offers a gloss on the tensions between secular convergence and the potential for disruption, perhaps even ‘de-globalization’. It will allow us to highlight the manner in which the assumptions framing globalization – especially, but by no means exclusively, market globalism and knowledge about the global – are being reworked and reconfigured under what muster as crisis conditions.
The discussion will be informed by terms familiar to global scholars: those of global convergence and its discontents, hybridity, syncretism (with the latter two concepts implying cultural amalgamation or mixing) and, of course, glocalization – the manner in which the mutual manifestations of the local and global are articulated.

For many commentators, globalization implies secular integration along with the growth of a modal consciousness. But that has always been too reductionist a description of a complex, non-linear, uneven, and often contradictory process; one that is increasingly decentred and multipolar.
Globalization is, above all, a multidimensional process moving to different impulses that inflect economic life, culture, the environment, and, of course, politics.
Populism affords some purchase on an axial feature of this globalized world - the imbrication or antithesis of local and global, of difference and sameness – and gives it a piquant twist. While generally ‘antiglobalist’, most variants of populism are also at odds with more politically congenial manifestations of anti, or alter-globalization.
This makes them uneasy bedfellows for much resistance to, most obviously, neoliberal globalization.
So, populism – especially in its current resurgence – is a self-conscious challenge to globalization as commonly understood, but it is also a feature of a contested globality and typical of its current phase.

I attach you the Covid-19 article. It is published in Mexican Journal of Political and Social Science.

Also confronts you with

Gerhard Preyer
Critical Theory
The shortcomings of Max Horkheimer's understanding of positivism and
Theodor W.
Adorno's deficits
-- revisted
https://www.academia.edu/45570572/Gerhard_Preyer_Critical_Theory_The_shortcomings_of_Max_Horkheimers_understanding_of_positivism_and_Theodor_W_Adornos_deficits_revisited

German version
https://www.academia.edu/44616089/Kritische_Theorie_Die_Gebrechen_des_Positivismusverst%C3%A4ndnis_von_Max_Horkheimer_und_Theodor_W_Adornos_Defizite_Revisited