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Acknowledgement
Most of the articles in this section are revised versions of papers presented originally at a seminar held at Oxford Brookes University, 13–14 January 2005, under ESRC award R451265188.
Notes
1 This a strong claim and one which receives little in the way of endorsement from, among others, Justin Rosenberg (Citation2000, Citation2005) whose ‘post mortem’ on globalization and what he dismisses as ‘globalization theory’ has spatiality as no more than a descriptive category, explaining nothing about social process.
2 Such approaches are not uncontested, leaving aside the lively debate over the status of the current phase of globalization as either a critical or banal conjuncture in the transformation of social relations on a world scale. But Sassen has a compelling case, writing of the ‘disembedding’ of constitutive rules from nation-state to a ‘multiplication of specialised assemblages’ (2006, p. 422).
3 On face-to face-mediations James Citation(2006) offers a range of possibilities covered by the notion of ‘embodied’ presence. Embodied integration is not just literal face-to-face mediation, but can involve people living as if they are always in continuing embodied co-presence and displaying concrete attachments through ritual, convivial, perceptual modalities, as well as ties that stress blood and kinship.
4 Knorr-Cetina Citation(2007) is much taken by the idea of ‘microstructures of globalization’, that is ‘structures of connectivity and integration that are global in scope but microsociological in character’ (2007, p. 66). These microstructures are ‘light,’ institutionally speaking, hardly models of Weberian rational bureaucracies. They share network characteristics, but cannot simply be reduced to networks; and they tend to be temporal structures: the resulting systems also exhibit flow characteristics.
5 As Peter Taylor points out (1999, p. 102) states themselves have been very active in curtailing or even obliterating places, whether as part of the process of nation and state-building, or in the case of imperial or frontier expansion and forms of internal colonialism (Hechter, Citation1975; Rogin, Citation1971).
6 The vagaries of such issues are legion. In the spring of 2006 public opinion in the US was much exercised by the publication of a Spanish language version of the US national anthem. Seen by some, including President Bush, as a dilution of American identity, the Spanish translation was also defended on the grounds that, by endorsing an apparent otherness, the Mexican version actually would serve to create a greater sense of belonging to the US on the part of Mexican-Americans.