ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the relationship between modernity and glocalization, especially with regard to the spatial component inherent in the glocal. It argues that the glocal offers a means to capture important shifts in twenty first-century social life with regard to issues of modernization and experiencing what it means to be modern. The chapter argues a brief overview and critical assessment of the post-1960s shift in social life and intellectual debates concerning the status of modernity in the social sciences. As modernity has ceased to be identified with the West, conceptual space has opened up to consider it in multiple formats or blueprints. However, this line of interpretation leaves out the spatial displacement of modernity, its migration, fragmentation, hybridization, and differential absorption into numerous Western and non-Western cultures around the globe. These processes prompt the formulation explores that one needs to think in terms of glocal modernities. In turn, this implies a rethinking of the relationship between modernity and social space.
