Globalization Needs Jargon

I get that globalization is a complex phenomenon, and if we take seriously Arjun Appadurai's claim that "globalization is itself a deeply historical, uneven, and even localizing process" we're going to need a way of thinking global/local together. That's tricky. Here's one way to do it, with example:

By focalization I mean the process of progressive denudation of local incidents and disputes of their partiuclars of context and aggregating them, thereby narrowing their concrete richness. Transvaluation refers to the parallel process of assimilating particulars to a larger, collective, more enduring, and therefore less context-bound, cause or interest. The processes of focalization and transvaluation thereby contribute to a progressive polarization and dichotomization fo issues and partisans, such that the climactic acts of violence by groups and mobs become in a short time self-fulfilling manifestations, incarnations and re-incarnations, of allegedly irresolvable communal splits bewteen Pathans and Biharis, Sikhs and Hindus, Sinhalese and Tamils, or Malays and Chinese." (Tambiah 1990, 750).

(cited in Appadurai, Modernity at Large, University Minnesota Press, 1996, p. 151)

I hope those last examples help clarify. Can I recommend dialectical materialism?