globalitarian

English

Etymology

Blend of global +‎ totalitarian

Adjective

globalitarian (comparative more globalitarian, superlative most globalitarian)

1. Totalitarian at a global scale.
   • 2001, Theodore Pelagidis, Louka T. Katseli, John Milios, Welfare State and Democracy in Crisis: Reforming the European Model, →ISBN:

     It cannot put up any resistance to the globalitarian tyranny because it is itself an integral part of it.

   • 2010, Mark E Davis, Keith Tester, Bauman's Challenge: Sociological Issues for the 21st Century, page 141:

     How is it possible to effectively critique a globalized, or globalitarian, system that has more or less abolished the space of serious political critique in favour of a new fetishistic, market orientated, brand of radicalism that cannot even begin to challenge the hegemony of mainstream politics, which is entirely conservative in its embrace of neoliberal capitalism?

   • 2013, Kane X. Faucher, Metastasis and Metastability: A Deleuzian Approach to Information, →ISBN:

     In effect, just as the State had aided and abetted the rise of integrated world capitalism with its principles of fluidity, mobility, and flexibility in a globalitarian world, so, too have librarians been able to adapt in similar fashion, in some cases moving toward a kind of de-institutionalization of libraries.

   • 2013, Simon Glezos, The Politics of Speed: Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World, →ISBN, page 81:

     And so we see that the case of the worldwide war-machine is both more terrifying and more hopeful than Virilio advances in the theory of the globalitarian state.

Noun

globalitarian (plural globalitarians)

1. A proponent of globalitarianism.
   • 2001 February, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “The anthropology of the state in the age of globalization: Close encounters of the deceptive kind”, in Current Anthropology, volume 42, number 1:

     Since many of the kinds of intervention traditionally thought to be within the purview of governments are less easily achieved or simply impossible today, globalitarians conclude that the state has declined.

   • 2006, Mihai I. Spariosu, Remapping Knowledge: Intercultural Studies for a Global Age, page 83:

     Like any globalitarian, Tamburlaine is fascinated by geography and cartography.

   • 2013, Patrick Thornberry, Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights, →ISBN:

     While human rights can be viewed as part of the globalising process, 'globalitarians' focus largely on the economic and social, favourably contratsting global 'capital, space, history and power to transform' with the local values and sites of 'labour, tradition and, not infrequently, women, indigenous people, peasants and others who are still attached to "place"'.