The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest in a series of multiple social crises that have impacted the global flow of people, things, institutions, and ideas in the opening decades of the 21st century. Many view pandemic lockdowns and social distancing as forms of 'deglobalization' measured by the reduction of the objective movements of goods and people. A few discerning academic observers, however, instead think of it as 'reglobalization' spearheaded by growing forms of digital interconnectivity. These conflicting perspectives on globalization and global social change were shared by Professor Manfred Steger from the Department of Sociology in University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's College of Social Sciences.

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2022/11/17/globalization-after-covid-19/

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