What's new about political ideologies in the age of globalization?

I argue that there is, in fact, something novel about today's ideological landscape: a new social imaginary is on the rise. It erupts with increasing frequency within and onto the familiar framework of the national, and across all geographical scales. Stoked by, among other things, scientific innovation and migration dynamics, this 'global imaginary' destabilizes the grand political ideologies codified by social elites in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thus, our changing ideational constellations are intimately related to the forces of globalization, defined here as the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world time and world space.