Gibson-Graham (2002) goes further than
Crang (1999) or Thrift (2000), arguing that
there are in fact six ways that the global and
local, and the interaction between them,
have been conceptualized in geographic
writings:
1 The global and the local do not exist –
they are just ways of ‘framing’ things.
2 The global and the local each get their
meanings from what they are not; that is,
in opposition to the other.