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I was surprised to see Tara Brabazon argue that ¡°the word ¡®glocal¡¯ should be avoided in academic writing on pain of death and/or watching looped episodes of Keeping Up with the Kardashians¡± (¡°Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media, by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun¡±, Books, 4 August) since this term is perfectly respectable within criminology. See, for example, Dick Hobbs¡¯ now seminal 1998 essay on the subject of the local context of organised crime, ¡°Going down the glocal¡±.

Perhaps, then, it is only in the context of culture studies that this concept is not yet acceptable?

Kenneth Smith
Reader in criminology and sociology
Bucks New University

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