the fact the more and more communities are now transnational in intention and practice does not mean that locality has ceased to be significan. for one thing, at any one moment in time everyone occupies a local with its attendant life-world no matter how much they travel or participate in multiple worldwide networks however, it is also the case that globalisation compels the local to rethink itself;globalisation relativises and changes the local even as localisation not only presupposes but also in turn revitalises and informs the global