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The article discusses Nokia’s presence in Romania after the translocation of its production plant from Germany, as a case-study that allows a twofold approach. First, I focus my analysis on territoriality and spatial processes related to global capitalism. Second, I argue for the importance of local power articulations and of the embeddedness of key actors in a particular social and economic context. While generally globalization studies imagine processes in terms meta power-relations, I show how agents and their political imaginaries are crucial for understanding phenomena that are often seen as the impersonal workings of the rationality of capital.

Keywords: globalization studies, transnational corporations, territorialization, scales, agency