glocal

is the creation and incorporation of locality. These processes themselves largely shape, in turn, the compression of the world as a whole. The global and the local comingle to produce the 'glocal', with borders becoming highly porous and indeed eroded.

Globalization, in Robertson's view, predates modernity and the rise of capitalism. Indeed, he presents five phases of globalization in Europe. He does, however, concede that the process currently being witnessed is qualitatively different from earlier manifestations, in that modernization has accelerated the process of globalization and permeated contemporary consciousness. At its heart lies the 'glocal', defined as the creation and incorporation of locality. These processes themselves largely shape, in turn, the compression of the world as a whole. The global and the local comingle to produce the 'glocal', with borders becoming highly porous and indeed eroded. (See also Glocal(ization).)

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