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is a center of power that is part of larger strategies, and vice-versa.

think of Foucault's 'Rule of Double Conditioning 'all local centers of power are part of larger strategies -- and vice-versa' in History of sexuality Part 4, chapter 2.

is, for followers of Geertz, made into a substitute for theory construction. The focus is on a novelistic recapitulation of details, with the aim of analysis being to accumulate these and fashion a model of the cultural text within a particular setting.

There is a relentless emphasis on the way that the local explains the local. He insist that socieities, like texts, contain their own explanation. Writing the local, as a consequence, comes into play as a substitute for theory construction. The focus here is on a novelistic recapitulation of details, with the aim of analysis being to accumulate these and fashion a model of the cultural text within a particular setting' (Alexander meaning 22).

is in need of being replaced with an attentiveness to social, cultural, and political location.

to replace 'time-honored commitment to the local . . . with an attentiveness to social, cultural, and political location' (Gupta and Ferguson 1997: 5)

is not the particular stopping place of the global there is only place making and travel flow.

Most commonly, globalist thinkers imagine the local as the stopping point of global circulations. It is the place where global flows are consumed, incorporated, and resisted (Pred and Watts 1992). It is the place where global flows fragment and are transformed into something place bound and particular (Wilson and Dissanayake 1996b). But if flow itself always involves making terrain, there can be no territorial distinctions between the 'global' transcending of place and the 'local' making of places. Instead, there is place making-- and travel-- all around, from New York to New Guinea.(FN15)' (Tsing 2000 ')

is often overly focused on in anthropology such that it hampers our ability to capture the specificity of transcendent structures most often associated with the global, such as political economy.

Anthropologist' zeal for the local, [Anna Tsing] argues, hampers our ability to capture the specificity of transcndent structures most often associated with the global, such as political economy' (Macia-Less 2006:9) she suggests we can focus on 'the spatial dimensions of 'scale,' the size or magnitude of what she calls 'projects'': r'relatively coherent bundles of ideas and practices as realized in particular times and places' (Macia-Less 2006:9)

is opposed to the global or 'total system' not because it concerns one identifiable point, but because it opposes to the global system the notion of power as diffuse and diffused.

the 'local' comes to be opposed to the 'global' or the 'total system' not because it refers only to a particular and identifiable point, for example, the training of bodies in schools... but precisely because it opposes to the global system the notion of power as diffuse and diffused' (Bove in introduction to Deleuze Foucault xxvi)

is tied to the universal. The poet's hope, for example, is to be like some valley cheese: local, but prized elsewhere.

a poet's hope: to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, but prized elsewhere.

is a thing which, if we limit our focus exclusively upon it, we run the risk of letting ourselves be determined by more general structures of which we may well not be conscious, and over which we may have no control.

Still, the following objection would no doubt be entirely legitimate: if we limit ourselves to this type of always partial and local inquiry or test, do we not run the risk of letting ourselves be determined by more general structures of which we may well not be conscious, and over which we may have no control' (Foucault 'what is enlightenment': 10)

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