ABSTRACT
As a now firmly established metaphor for social change, ‘globalization’ has rapidly made its way into an exclusive, but endangered, list of terms which risk emptying themselves of definition by their reckless application. At once, globalization – defined as a largely economic process – has been held responsible for the termination of the nation-state, the death of history (Fukuyama 1992) and even the ‘end’ of the social itself (Rose 1996; Touraine 1998).
