ABSTRACT
In geography, Gillian Rose has written about ‘paradoxical space’ in an attempt to destabilise the spatial opposition of the ‘same’ and ‘other’ (Rose, 1993a). AMB
This approach has allowed geographers to address the ways in which processes operating at different scales relate to each other, and Swyngedouw (1997) has coined the term ‘glocalisation’ to highlight the simultaneous importance of local and global developments. Doreen Massey’s (1994c) work has also been particularly influential in this regard. In unpacking the inter connections between different places and people she argues that a ‘global sense of p l a c e ’ illuminates the links between everyday life and various social relations which are ‘stretched out’ across space, sometimes at global dimen sions. Likewise, some feminists have argued for new transnational political connections, uniting women across national boundaries (see Grewal and Caplan, 1994; Mohanty et al., 1991).
