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The political and economic changes of the 70s, in part to do with the ending of the 'Fordist model', decisively affected the structure of cities, especially those which had been significant industrial centers. In the case of Barcelona, the response of institutions and private capital was, through a series of Strategic Plans, to redevelop the city both territorially and economically so as to bring it into the web of global investment capitalism. The approach adopted - the so-called 'Barcelona model', or 'the model of city as company' involved (in spite of resistance by residents and by 'okupa' squats) reworking the city on the criterion of profit, or financial advantage. The result has been the transformation of Barcelona into a metropolitan space which is both specialized and multi-centered, and wholly integrated into the ebb and flow of multinational capital. Nevertheless, after all the plundering and pillaging, what is clear is that the powers that be have failed in their bid to turn Barcelona into a top-rank global (and local) city, the capital of a new southern European macro-region.

1) Editorial - Gilles Guiheux, S. 3, Abstract: China has a long history as a textile producer. In the late eighteenth century, in many areas of textile weaving and dyeing, Western Europeans were still working on imitating Chinese processes, and textile production was important in many urban and rural areas, especially in the Yangzi Delta, where it was strongly encouraged by the Qing dynasty. During the nineteenth century, the disintegration of the imperial regime prevented the development of an indigenous industrial revolution and spurred the ambitions of the industrialised countries to penetrate the Chinese market with cheap textile goods. It is only after the reform policies launched in 1978 that China was able to industrialise and regain a major role in the global textile industry… (China Perspect/GIGA). - 2) The weft of Shanghai Fashion: economic networks in Shanghai's modern fashion industry - Carles Brasó-Broggi, S. 5, Abstract: Shanghai's modern fashion industry developed between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the 1930s and was an important step in China's industrialisation. The present article aims to define the relationship between production and consumption in Shanghai's modern fashion industry. One of the main characteristics of modern fashion is its ability to innovate by creating new and distinct trends while absorbing different influences. Shanghai modern fashion was an original mix of Chinese and foreign styles. The second determinant of this phenomenon is its capacity to be distinctive and reproducible at the same time. Shanghai's modern fashion therefore only emerged when the city was able to innovate and produce goods on a massive scale that were adapted to consumer tastes. To prove this relationship, the present article establishes concrete links between traders, industrialists, and retailers. The textile industry benefited from the outcome of a complex network that linked foreign trade, cotton mills, retail shops, and mass publicity. This paper analyses how this economic network was developed. (China Perspect/GIGA). - 3) Domestic and international challenges for the textile industry in Shaoxing (Zhejiang) - Shi Lu, S. 13, Abstract: This article recounts the transformations that have taken place in the textile industry in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, over the course of the past 30 years. It reveals the importance of the local setup and the links that have built up between companies, markets, and the state and its departments. It also exposes the difficulties experienced by companies as they try to adapt to their changing environment, whether in terms of opportunities offered by the domestic or international markets, or new regulations. (China Perspect/GIGA)

"Beschleunigter Abbau natürlicher Ressourcen vermittelt sich in wachsendem Maße global. Unterschiedliche lokale Formen, Natur zu nutzen, haben - historisch gesehen - konträre Auswirkungen auf globale Lebensbedingungen gehabt: 1. Verlust des Naturbezuges: lokale Nutzungen gefährden globale Lebensbedingungen a) Naturkatastrophen haben genauer betrachtet oft einen anthropogenen Auslöser (Beispiele von Auswirkungsketten einseitiger großflächiger Eingriffe in tropischen Regenwäldern von Plantagenanbau, Bergbau, etc. vgl. Ab Saber, WRM, IRN u.a.). b) Beschleunigter Rohstoffraubau und Ausdehnung des Handels führen zu globalen Rückwirkungen auf das Klima und zum Abbau von biologischer Vielfalt sowie dem Verlust des Zugangs immer größerer Bevölkerungsgruppen zu frischem Wasser. 2. Erhalt des Naturbezuges: lokale Nutzungen erhalten globale Lebensbedingungen a) Gleichzeitig wird deutlich, dass andere Gesellschaften schützend in die Natureingreifen und ihre Handlungsstrategien bereits über Jahrtausende lebenswichtige Ökosysteme weiter diversifizierten und stärkten (Beispiele von Techniken des Erhalts und der Vermehrung der Vielfalt, der Anreicherung der Böden, der Wälder u.a. vgl. G. Budowski, P. Clastres, V. Shiva vgl. auch kulturelle Symbole, Bilder, Gleichnisse). b) Diese anderen Gesellschaften in tropischen Regenwäldern bestehen jedoch auf ihren Territorien seien es Indigene, Schwarzengemeinschaften, Sammler (Kautschukzapfer, etc.) oder Fischer, da diese für sie Ausgangspunkte der Geschichte, des Wissens über Bewirtschaftung und seiner Erweiterung sind. 3. Gesellschaftliche Naturbezüge lokal und global erlernen bzw. neu verankern a) Es ist daher unumgänglich, dass die Bedingungen für den Erhalt der Potentiale des Lebens auch global erlernt werden. Also ist eine gesellschaftliche Verständigung über schützende Eingriffe in die Natur lokal und global eine lebenserhaltende Erfahrung. b) Die Lernprozesse globalen und lokalen Naturbezuges haben eine Priorität auf für gesellschaftliche Vermittlungsprozesse in Schulen, an Universitäten, in den Medien. Wissen über Naturbezüge ist der Rohstoff aus dem neue gesellschaftliche Werte entstehen und alte gefestigt werden. Hier sind sozialwissenschaftliche interkulturelle interdisziplinäre Forschungen erforderlich." (Autorenreferat)

A review symposium on a book by Arndt Sorge, The Global and the Local: Understanding the Dialectics of Business Systems. (Oxford, Oxford U Press, 2005). Adapted from the source document.

There are certain events, John Tomlinson (1999) argues, such as the fallout in Chernobyl, the fall of the Berlin wall, the collapse of the communist world, the creation of the European Union, global summits on climate change, wars in Beirut, the Gulf, Somalia, or Bosnia, that "may add to the extension of the individual's 'phenomenal world'". Such is the case for the characters in Michel Laub's trilogy of novels: Diário da queda (2011), A maçã envenenada (2013), and O tribunal da quinta-feira (2016). In these novels, global catastrophes (the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the A.I.D.S epidemic) are juxtaposed, both formally and narratively, with the personal tragedies suffered by their protagonists, thus creating an analogous relationship with the local/global dialectic. This paper studies Laub's trilogy as global novels, seeking to subvert the market term by adding the "local" modifier, in an attempt to understand the nature of world literature in the twenty-first century. The Local-Global Novel, of the kind produced by Laub, complicates Anderson's (1983) notion of nations as imagined communities by adopting the world as a community in which individuals, and their narratives, can be seen as singular-plural (NANCY, 1996).

Indigeneity, a concept and construct, is increasingly gaining currency in academia, in the political sphere, and in public debates. Indigeneity as an active political force with international support has become a resource in identity politics. This article focuses on the dynamics of how the transnational idea of indigeneity has been nationally installed and locally translated within the context of the ethnohistory of an Indigenous movement that stemmed from local–societal relations with the state. The idea of indigeneity is seen as both local and global because it is globally circulated but locally articulated as well as globally charged but locally framed. Focusing on the Chittagong Hill Tracts, in the borderlands of South and Southeast Asia and home to 11 Indigenous groups in Bangladesh, the article argues that the local translation of global indigeneity is necessary for ensuring the rights and entitlements of Indigenous Peoples. (J Southeast Asian Stud/GIGA)

Why are some locations more attractive targets for transnational terrorism than others? Remarkably little is known about the local-level conditions and attributes that determine precisely where transnational terror attacks occur within targeted countries. To date, quantitative terrorism research identifies country- or region-level correlates of terrorism, neglecting possible local factors. In this study, we posit five local-level factors that increase the likelihood of a terror attack: security of a target, accessibility, symbolism, material harm, and exclusion. Using a variety of estimation strategies, including multilevel, negative binomial, and propensity score matching models, we regress new sub-national geographically coded transnational terrorism data on various sub-national measures that might theoretically increase the likelihood of a terror attack. The results demonstrate that although country- and region-level factors matter, numerous local-level conditions, including where civil violence occurs, sub-national economic activity, and proximity to capitals and urban areas, are equally, if not more, important. The results help to substantiate the analytical benefits of adopting the sub-national level of analysis in the study of transnational terrorism.