ABSTRACT
This chapter indicates how the idea of power-geometry provides a critique of theories of globalisation by emphasising the unequal dynamics of the time-space process which globalisation discourses attempt to describe. It draws on Stuart Hall's concept of identity as involving a constant process of change and transformation as a challenge to globalisation theories which assume that culture 'flows' across the world. Globalisation, as it initially developed in academic discussions, was introduced as an idea suggesting that the world was moving towards a united space which was increasingly homogeneous but with complexities and dynamics permitting heterogeneity. The chapter introduces globalisation theories and follows the writers who have stressed that the global and the local should be treated as related rather than defined separately. The relationship between the global and local should be understood as an interrelated process, rather than an attempt to define the global or the local in relation to a geographical location.
