Theme:
4. People of the Present – Peopling the Past
Session format:
Discussion session (with formal abstracts)
Title:
Glocalization of Identities in the Roman World
Content:
According to sociologist Roland Robertson, the term ‘glocalization’ was coined by Japanese economists to explain Japanese global marketing strategies. The term introduced by Robertson was widely accepted and used in sociology, and in recent years is finding its use in archaeology. If we accepted that what is ‘local’ is organically shaped by the ‘global’, then what of the opposite? In this session we would like to explore the glocalization in different spheres of life in the Roman world, understanding this notion as ‘the refraction of a global phenomenon through local entities’, defined as such by sociologist Victor R. Roudometof. The Roman Empire took control over a territory located on three continents, thus multiple cultural interactions, influences, and transitions were unavoidable. Glocalization can concern different aspects of religion, art, and material culture. We will study how identities were manifested in various ways within the globalising Roman world, especially in the provinces, and what this could have meant to the whole Roman Empire. We welcome papers dealing with different types of evidence, from different chronologies, and different areas of the Roman Empire, but dealing with the phenomenon of glocalization or its theoretical framework.
Keywords:
glocalization, Roman world, Antiquity
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Anna Mech (Poland) 1
Co-organisers:
Ljubica Perinić (Croatia) 2
Affiliations:
1. University of Warsaw
2. Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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