With a few exemptions scholarly work is not located in terms of geography. The metropole is not named. The issues matter: education, employment, care, the theory matters: normalization, social model/medical model, postmodernism, but the where does not matter. Only those positioned outside the metropole need to make their geopolitical position clear. (Meekosha, 2008: 2) While this is understandably frustrating for those of us working outside 'the metropole' as we must continually clarify our geographical focus