ABSTRACT
The contemporary world is undergoing significant restructuring in arenas commonly demarcated as economic, political, and cultural. This restructuring, facilitated by the hegemonic doctrines of neoliberalism, is dubbed globalization. This chapter argues that globalization is first and foremost a series of processes which combine to enact new geographies-through a restructuring of scalar relations. One outcome of this scalar restructuring is that the global is interfluent with the local and the local interfluent with the global in new ways. The geographies emergent under scalar restructuring appear to be, to an important degree, jurisdictional and they rest on crystallizations of regulatory power-of governance-that have themselves been met by new geographies of popular dissent, resistance, and protest.
