National Impacts and Responses to Global Challenges: Matrices of Coloniality in Globality

In an apparent disregard of its overt quixotic promise, globality now captivates the world’s imagination as if it were an end in itself. Just like the development oxymoron, the meta-narrative of globality must be suspected for privileging particular science, knowledge or wisdom over others. Inevitably, the locus of the national impacts and responses to global challenges are admittedly illusive because they are intricately embedded with the ambivalence, ambiguity and contradictions of the production and transmission of knowledge and wisdom of science, which define the power and being of domination and subordination predisposed with coloniality in globality. Equally, the ambiguity and ambivalence of the national impacts of global challenges have elicited ambiguous and ambivalent responses, reflective of a concoction of coercion with soft power concessions that are shaped and reshaped through recursive negotiations, resistance, mimicry and hybridity. To this extent, this paper argues that national impacts and responses to global challenges are inseparable from the spatio-political-economy of universally received science, knowledge and wisdom. Τhe hegemonic solipsistic bellicose oxymoron of global capitalist economic relations of development, are outcomes of the propensity of emulation of a set of “historical anthropology of cultural confrontation, domination, reaction and innovation; hence, violence, deceit, hypocrisy and lies are the norm in the contemporary world of globality. Therefore, the search for national impacts and responses to global challenges, especially for developing countries, should necessarily be deeply ideological and philosophical. The paper presents brief South African narratives to affirm its argument