In the second half of the 20th century, as the world exploded into a global society, many terms and slogans emerged to capture the experience and advocate appropriate new behavior. In particular, Think Globally, Act Locally became the rallying call for a new localist movement.
Now, two decades into the 21st century, translocalism has emerged as a way of addressing limits of both localism and globalism in a world of mass migration--while supporting the values of localism.
Sometimes described as "non-geographic localism," translocalism attempts to integrate various localism practices with geographically dispersed communities. Groups with distinct identity attachments to multiple locations (usually a diaspora) are sometimes considered translocal. Some advocates have flipped the earlier slogan, calling for citizens to Think Locally, Act Globally.