ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with three sets of processes that continue to transform the ways in which we make our geographies and histories:
• transformations in political economy – in the east (of Europe), following
the collapse of state socialism after 1989; and in the wider west, with the rise of neo-liberalism since the mid to late 1970s;
• perpetual social and material (re)constructions of scale within globalizing circuits of value;
• rescaling of the state, in part as a result of these processes, and the consequent struggle within and between states for spaces of power and meaning.
