Rejecting spatial categories as ontologically given as static, timeless containers of
historicity (Brenner, 1999, page 46)ötheorists in human geography are in the process
of developing a theory of geographical scale.(27) They emphasise that the different
scales, or levels of spatial representation, that we use in our social analysesöfor
example, local, national, regional, globalöare in no way pregiven but are socially
constructed and should be understood as ``temporary stand-offs in a perpetual
transformative ... socio-spatial power struggle''