Geography in globalization Geography has played an important rolc in the pursuit of mcanings and measurements of globalization. In particular, through its conccrn with understanding scale, the subject has tended to avoid the notion of the global as a stage, an inert space on which events inevitably unfold Taylor et al. In work that sets out to define the global, the auulors ideatify two centual points. First, scales are relaLional in otlier rds no scale is static or pre-given and the effects of change at no oue Tale predetermine the impacts at another. This is particularly important n terms of the idea that the global' determines the local'. Two constructs, glocalization' and'local-global', arc important rcsponscs to this falsc dichotomy, implying that thc global is constantly in a state of flux and being reconstituted from below. In other words, things are constantly being rescaled'. Thus, sometimes this involves processes moving to institutions"above the state", other times to"below the state and through all of this the state itself is changing and adapting'