In this century, the social sciences face new intellectual and political challenges. The world has been undergoing profound political and military upheavals, in which both national and international relations of power are being transformed.
Increasingly global capitalist relations pose old questions of inequality and social conflict in new forms. Both the contents and forms of cultural relations are rapidly changing, together with their political and economic significance, and the challenge of the Internet is part of this process.
The global site has been founded, therefore, to address five challenges to our understanding that these developments raise for the social sciences:
- new interrelations of political, economic and cultural power
- new interrelations of national and international forms
- new media impacts on culture and society
- new conditions for emancipatory social and political theory and method
- new conditions for agency in a more global world
