What has all of this got to do with time–space compression and the popular notions associated with globalization as a process? In general, the ‘anti-globalization movement’ has a particular belief in terms of what it believes globalization is – what might be termed ‘corporate/ neoliberal globalization’. The movement’s supporters, to the extent that it is possible to represent their opinions in one idea, believe that there is a powerful state-sponsored corporate agenda at work which seeks to spread free-market capitalism and that ‘shrinking’ processes provide a ‘spatial fix’ which helps achieve that goal (Harvey, 1989). But this is only one way of conceiving of the phenomenon – the globalization debate is one of competing discourses about the nature of geographical interactions.