The over-valorization of the global spatial has created renewed interest in recovering the role of the ‘local’ in the creation, maintenance and expansion of global flows and networks. Global place(s) are the urban territories where global networks ‘touchdown’ and organize material capabilities. This reorganization of urban space also creates new geographies of marginality and new struggles over resources and local agency. The struggles which emerge are one of the ways that global capital is instantiated and thus offer rich sites for investigating and documenting the political needs of what is often an abstract and underdetermined phenomenon.

Using a standpoint theoretical framework, this research examined moments of struggle in response to gender marginalization in the city of Montreal over a 12 month period, focusing on media accounts of the struggles authored by participants (i.e. in alternative and citizen’s media). What emerged was the disturbing commonality of state ’sanctioned’ violence against women as a priority issue. Within a context of globalization’s documented dependence on pools of vulnerable and unorganized labour, often primarily made up of women, important questions are raised concerning tensions and contradictions around the relationships between gender, the role of the nation-state, and citizenship.

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