Criticism of Neoliberal Globalization in Arif Dirlik’s Opinion

Neoliberal policies, which have been revived since the 1980s with transnational production / trade and empowering capitalist goals, it aims to integrate the entire sphere beyond differences into a higher social sphere in order to realize its economic and political objectives by emphasizing the importance of organizing the social sphere. This new era, unlike the classical modern era, incorporates societies into the global society with their own consent and differences without categorizing and marginalizing them in bilateral contrasts. Thus, neoliberal globalization makes possible a pattern in which heterogeneity and a multicenter structure are visible. But at the same time, all these differences, combined with its worlds of meaning and symbol within the global society, actually begin to turn into it or hybridize at some point. Although the new paradigm, the neoliberal global era, has shaken the euro-centralist foundations of modernity with its chaotic and fragmented structure, it has not completely detached from it in the intellectual and social context. In this context, according to Arif Dirlik, who criticized this new order on the concept of "global modernity", neoliberal globalization imagines the world as a multicenter structure in which multiplicity is visible, while at the same time trying to gain and control the belongings of subjects and societies in order to control the movements brought about by these differences, and reveals integration synonymous with fragmentation. In this case, although globalization has risen above the deconstruct of modernity, it has not gone beyond reinterpreting it, and thus alternative discourses have remained superficial.