"We are witnessing the rise of what I call "a fragmented globality." World histories and local histories are at once becoming both increasingly intertwined and increasingly contradictory. The twenty-first century is likely to be marked by the speed and brutality of these contradictions."
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Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Theorizing a Global Perspective (1996)
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