LOOKING FOR THE GLOBAL SPACES IN LOCAL-POLITICS

In this commentary I argue that in his paper on the politics of scale Kevin Cox fails to adequately address the global scale and its articul ation with local politics. Instead he conflates the global scale with other scales of analysis and social practice such as the regional and the national by repeated use of the expression 'more global' to design ate all extra-local scales and processes. I attempt to show why it is important to more precisely define the 'global-local' duality by diffe rentiating it from other binary oppositions such as the 'general-parti cular' and 'structure-agency' dualities both to avoid unfruitful confl ation of concepts and to advance the analysis of the politics of scale . (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.