Balancing macro- and micro-scales in global-context understanding

[...]the authors contend there is a risk that global studies may reinforce prevailing Graeco-Roman exceptionalism. [...]identifying causal links as distinct from correlative ones is challenging. The communicative abilities of objects and practices between different groups mean that one’s experience of globalization depends upon who, where and when one is (Hodos 2020, 210–12). [...]our understanding of the micro-level cannot be divorced from macro-scale developments. [...]they should not reject assessing the extent to which shared ideas may have circulated in their region during their period of consideration.