... community is perhaps not as beneficial as it seems, as described in "Beware the C-word" (Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 4.11.00). This article focuses on the negative aspects of communitarianism while making commentaries on the consequences of retreating from the global. The article "Global in the Local" by Arif Dirlik is less opinionated, but rather chooses to focus on the way in which the global has been accepted into the local, and enters into the retreat from the global debate in a relatively even handed way. Globalisation is the process of worldwide economic and cultural influences affecting and imposing on individual lives and small communities, referred to as the local. The local can be described as a refuge from the global forces that occupy every aspect of our lives from mobile phones to Nike shoes. It can be argued that the relatively recent phenomenon of a shift towards the global has been ...

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