ABSTRACT
Things are always going on in the bad streets. I don’t feel safe in the street . . . It’s people talking bad about other people, lots of fighting, across the streets, close to the park.
(Carrie, aged 14)
The capability of neighbourhoods to produce contexts (within which their very localizing activities acquire meaning and historical potential) and to produce local subjects is profoundly affected by the locality-producing capabilities of larger-scale formations (nationstates, kingdoms, missionary empires, and trading cartels) to determine the general shape of all the neighbourhoods within the reach of their powers.
