I wanted to share a quote that I found in my readings that suggests that globalization has made the local situation all the more important to the individual : from Strassoldo “The easy access to the whole world [...] gives new meaning to the need for a subjective center – a home, a community, a locale – from which to move and to which to return to rest.”1
1Roger Gibbons, “Federalism and the Challenge of Electronic Portals,” E-Government Reconsidered: Renewal of Governance for the Knowledge Age. E. Lynn Oliver and Larry Sanders, eds. (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center and the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, University of Regina, 2004): 33-42, pp. 33