ABSTRACT
This chapter points to the ground-breaking qualities of Living the global city (1997) as an early, and signal, contribution to a multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach to how the global is enacted through the articulation and interplay of situated and mobile agents and more encompassing social, economic and – critically – cultural structures. My approbation is tempered because any review of the current state of global studies reveals that this early promise has been realised only piecemeal; so that study of the mutual constitution of local and global remains underdeveloped. The argument rehearses the intellectual provenance of Living the global city as a contribution to the cultural ethnography of globalization/glocalization and stresses the continuing need to revisit its research agenda, since it remains pertinent in the changed cityscapes of today.
