ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the repercussions of the glocal turn for research agendas and fields of study as well as to contemplate the limits of the concept of glocalization. It explores the consequences of glocalization for the field of global studies. The chapter argues that it is legitimate to contemplate the possibility of glocal studies becoming a distinct field from global studies. It examines the theoretical issues explored mainly in the argument pursued and tracing the consequences, implications, and unresolved or unexplored issues that remain important foci for future debate. Glocalism is already a rising worldview or ideology in public policy discourses, and it is likely that this trend will intensify in the future. The careful separation between glocalization and glocalism offers the means that could help preserve the heuristic of the glocal from the fallacies of both negative and affirmative glocalism. Glocalization is a new addition to the conceptual vocabulary of the humanities and social sciences.
