Doug
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>The multiple processes that constitute economic globalization
>inhabit and shape specific structurations of the economic, the
>political, the cultural, the subjective. In so doing, new
>spatialities and temporalities are produced. These new spatialities
>and temporalities of the global do not stand outside the national.
>They are partly inserted in the national and hence evince complex
>imbrications with the latter. This is especially so because, in my
>reading, the global is itself partial, albeit strategic. The global
>cannot (at least for now) fully encompass the lived experience of
>actors or the domain of institutional orders and cultural
>formations; it remains a partial condition. As a result the outcome
>of these multiple imbrications between the national and the global
>is overlap and interaction rather than mutual exclusivity. The
>extent to which there is overlap and interaction is perhaps one of
>the marking features of the current era.