Roland Robertson
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Roland Robertson lectures at The University Of Aberdeen in Scotland, United Kingdom. He is a sociologist and theorist of globalization. His theories have focused significantly on a more phenomenological and psycho-social approach than that of more materialist oriented theorists such as I. Wallerstein or Fredric Jameson. For Robertson, the most interesting aspect of our globalized (post?)modernity is the way in which, for people around the world, a global consciousness has evolved. He lays down a progression of "phases" that capture the central aspects of different eras in global history. He asserts that we have entered the 5th phase, that of Global Uncertainty.
His main works are Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture and the edited volume Global Modernities. His contributed article in the latter introduced the Japanese business term glocalization into Western social science discourse.
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More information and details of his current research interests can be found via the Aberdeen University web page at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/staff/details.php?id=40
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