Abstract:Relational perspectives have become pre-eminent in geographical analysis of globalisation and its impacts in reshaping places, yet arguably leave unanswered questions about precisely how globalisation is reproduced through local places in practice. This paper seeks to extend and enhance the relational approach to globalisation and place by drawing on theoretical insights from assemblage thinking to articulate a methodological framework for empirical research. It draws on DeLanda's iteration of Deleuzoguattaria… Show more
“…The arrival of asylum seekers into a small town offers a good case to study these issues as it often involves a disturbance to the prevailing order of things. Following Deleuze and Guattari's terminology, the process can be viewed as dynamic movement of deterritorialization and reterritorialization as people decode and recode the codes that order a community (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; Müller, 2015; Woods et al, 2021). In Latour's (2005) terms this can be conceptualised as reassembling the social through acts of enrolment and counter‐enrolment.…”
Section: Reconfiguring People and Placesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…How do people form associations with others in the town and how do they enrol actors behind alleged common interests and shared identity? As Woods et al (2021) mention, there is a need for studies interrogating the detailed mechanisms and conditions through which local and translocal entities connect, how these conjunctions affect the constitution of places and how they lead to certain outcomes prevailing over others.…”
The paper examines how a small rural town Kauhava, Finland, is reconfigured in the wake of a reception centre being established. Drawing on the conceptual toolbox of the sociology of associations, we find that regardless of attitudes towards asylum seekers, people springing into action and enroling others leads to the problematisation and intensification of place. This involves turning public and private spaces into contested places. Competing definitions of community and identity emerge. While new identities are configured, new associations and ways of linking actors and places together also take form. The paper examines how the micropolitics of place and belonging are carried out in practice, and what types of mechanisms bring about or prevent new conjunctions and transformations in places. The data consist of interviews in Kauhava with town officials, reception centre volunteers, opponents of the centre and refugees who have stayed in the town.
“…The arrival of asylum seekers into a small town offers a good case to study these issues as it often involves a disturbance to the prevailing order of things. Following Deleuze and Guattari's terminology, the process can be viewed as dynamic movement of deterritorialization and reterritorialization as people decode and recode the codes that order a community (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; Müller, 2015; Woods et al, 2021). In Latour's (2005) terms this can be conceptualised as reassembling the social through acts of enrolment and counter‐enrolment.…”
Section: Reconfiguring People and Placesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…How do people form associations with others in the town and how do they enrol actors behind alleged common interests and shared identity? As Woods et al (2021) mention, there is a need for studies interrogating the detailed mechanisms and conditions through which local and translocal entities connect, how these conjunctions affect the constitution of places and how they lead to certain outcomes prevailing over others.…”
The paper examines how a small rural town Kauhava, Finland, is reconfigured in the wake of a reception centre being established. Drawing on the conceptual toolbox of the sociology of associations, we find that regardless of attitudes towards asylum seekers, people springing into action and enroling others leads to the problematisation and intensification of place. This involves turning public and private spaces into contested places. Competing definitions of community and identity emerge. While new identities are configured, new associations and ways of linking actors and places together also take form. The paper examines how the micropolitics of place and belonging are carried out in practice, and what types of mechanisms bring about or prevent new conjunctions and transformations in places. The data consist of interviews in Kauhava with town officials, reception centre volunteers, opponents of the centre and refugees who have stayed in the town.
“…This moves politics away from being something that exists in a particular place to a focus on the intertwined and unequal influences that configure our world. While emphasising connections across space, relational theorising has also detailed the importance of specific sites of action within broader spatial formations, articulating a tension between a focus on relations and the agency, autonomy, and capacities of sites themselves (Woods et al, 2021). Routledge (2008), for example, uses the transnational Peoples' Global Action movement to develop the idea of convergence spaces to understand these global networks as place‐based yet not place‐bounded.…”
Section: Civil Society Global Development and Relational Geographiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Routledge (2008), for example, uses the transnational Peoples' Global Action movement to develop the idea of convergence spaces to understand these global networks as place‐based yet not place‐bounded. Relational theorising then emphasises the relations and connections integral to political and social struggles, without losing the relevance of more situated sites of action and more localised forms of global struggles (Cumbers et al, 2008; Massey, 2005; Miller & Nicholls, 2013; Woods et al, 2021).…”
Section: Civil Society Global Development and Relational Geographiesmentioning
Our ability to really carry out programmes is because of our network which we have built up over the last 38 years. A vast network of friends, well-wishers and supporters… (Lincoln, founder, CSO in Barbados,
“…For instance, from a more explicitly Deleuzian or DeLandan assemblage perspective, such as that employed in our research on the global countryside, investment capital can be understood as an ‘assemblage converter’ (Bennett, 2010; Woods et al, 2021), a critical component that brings other components together and reconfigures them to achieve transformation in the properties and capacities of the assemblage as a whole. Yet, the processes by which capital comes to be attached to an assemblage can be difficult to grasp.…”
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