ABSTRACT
Globalisation challenges the theory and practice of social sciences that have traditionally relied on notions of ‘society’ or ‘culture’ as complete and discrete systems – hermetically sealed – for investigation and understanding. It exposes such assumptions and redirects attention to time-space distanciation (Giddens 1991: 20-21) and exposes the way in which social relations and processes are connected across time and space. In so doing it necessitates a new way of envisaging place as not static and bounded but unfixed and constantly reconstituted – moments in intersecting social relations that are both contained within and stretch beyond the particular locality (Massey 1994: 120).
