Area studies and their problematiques are ill suited to deal with human relations
spilling over area boundaries, and we have to devise more adequate perspectives to
encompass these. Although globalisation studies emphasise the growth of worldwide
networks (new media, capital flows, diasporas, international organisations, the `global city'), there are many other border crossings that need to be understood. It is a mistake
to assume that the most revealing crossings are those between the West and the rest.
Understandings of global linkages need to emerge forcefully form direct exchanges
between scholars studying different parts of the `South'