1. the world is made up of nations 2. some stuff we can call 'national' and some stuff 'global' 3. not everything is global 4. some stuff is both 'national' and 'global'
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-----Original Message----- From: Doug Henwood [mailto:dhenwood at panix.com] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 6:43 PM To: lbo-talk Subject: words
Can anyone name this author? And can anyone tells me if this passage means anything?
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.