John Urry’nin ‘Küresel Karmaşıklık’ Kitabı Üzerine Eleştirel Bir Değerlendirme A Critical Analysis of the book Global Complexity by John Urry

This article aims to make a succinct analysis of John Urry’s acclaimed book, Global Complexity. Considering the book as a worthwhile attempt to understand globalization processes through the optics of complexity or chaos theories, the article, however, tries to problematize the basic assumptions in Urry’s formulation. Urry’s distinction between global networks and global flows based on his rendering of the latter as having “escape points” in contrast to the authoritarian nature of the former is prone to discussion. Another problem arises at the point where John Urry attempts to refuse the reductionist theories of globalization. Although he seems to point out the overarching qualities of globalization within the realm of global networks, he fails to take into account the impact of the neoliberal ideology and to link economic aspects of globalization with cultural aspects where his seemingly clear-cut distinction between global networks and global flows appears to erode.