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such as the ‘IMF’ riots interpretations. The legacy of the earlier state-led development period in particular offered a springboard for action today. Protecting the state infrastructure has been a major strand in moving into the post neoliberal period and this again sets a different context from the notion of ‘new’ globalization in an absolutely novel way. What these two texts taken together pose is the nature of the relation between the global and the local. Global movements and global waves of protest do not necessarily map neatly on to the local or national level. To put in another way, the protests in Central America do not respond to the same causes as those other ‘local’ protests in the US, Spain or North Africa that are seen as ‘global’. The campaigns against the impact of neoliberalism on specific issues (e.g. privatization or labour flexibility) in the global South are, arguably, part of a ‘global’ wave even if they cannot be placed in the same category as the democratic revolts of the Arab Spring for example. Yet we remain unclear on the precise politics of scale involved in these revolts and the dynamics of uneven development which shape them. What these two texts – read alongside each other – provide us with is a rich insight into the dense fabric of social movement mobilizations in all their social, political and discursive complexity.