...re-articulating international political space [Held and McGrew, 1993: 264]. Giddens defines globalisation as 'the intensification of worldwide social relations...by events occurring many miles away and vice versa' [Giddens, 1990: 64]. Held and McGrew suggest that: Globalisation can be conceived as having two interrelated...

...different views. The basic understanding is usually a neutral formulation, such as 'Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social...by events occurring many miles away and vice versa' (Giddens, 1990: 64). The 'intensification of worldwide social relations' can be thought of as a long-term...

...more pressing, and particularly if we define globalization as Held, following Anthony Giddens, does: 'the intensification of worldwide social relations...by events occurring many miles away and vice versa' (Held 1983: 9). There is a clear sense in which the global linkages that Held wants theorized and taken...

...globalisation - 'the intensification of world-wide social relations which link distinct localities in a such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa' - then makes complete anthropological sense. Such intensification, fuelled by the new information technologies...

...way that social interactions are embedded in global networks. In this formulation, globalization is defined as the 'intensification of worldwide social...by events occurring many miles away and vice versa' (Giddens, 1990: 64). In a similar vein. Harvey (1989: 284) contends that globalization has led to 'an...

...nominalistic approach to global-level phenomena - as is revealed by Giddens' own definition of globalization as 'the intensification of world-wide social relations...by events occurring many miles away and vice versa' (1990: 64). Moreover, as Robertson points out, Giddens appears committed to the 'thesis that globalization...

...at least, is becoming globally integrated. This globalization has been defined by Giddens (1990: 64) as 'the intensification of worldwide social relations...events occurring many miles away and vice versa'. Globalization in this study refers to the organization, distribution and consumption of cultural products...

...refers to 'the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant locations in such ways that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa' (1990: 64). This not only throws up questions of power and the relations between the centre and the...

...thrust of modernity towards greater interconnectedness worldwide. He writes, 'Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social...by events occurring many miles away and vice versa' (1990: 64). His account becomes part of his general theory of the transformation of social relationships...

...term used by economists and sociologists alike. Giddens (1990), for example, has defined globalisation as 'the intensification of worldwide social relations...by events occurring many miles away and vice versa' (p.64). The most notable example is provided by the European Union, which has launched a large variety...