ABSTRACT
As with most myths of social science, this one needs debunking. This chapter underscores that interest reflects and sustains passion, just as objectivity often inverts subjectivity, and the macro-structural a cover for the micro-personal. For evidence, I review current discussions of globalisation. Their apparent 'econocentrism' (Turim 1997: 145) cannot stamp out colonial power relations of old where 'the global' stands for the 'masculinised Western Self'; and 'the local', the 'backward, irrational Native Other'. Indeed, this colonial resilience puzzles given that many in the core of globalisation today echo sentiments of celebration or despair similar to those voiced by formerly colonised subjects during their struggles for modernisation and independence in face of Westernisation.
