Assemblage, place and globalisation

Woods, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3813-4138, Fois, F ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6908-9726, Heley, J ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7876-2337, Jones, L, Onyeahialam, A, Saville, S ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6307-0573 and Welsh, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9482-9164 2021, 'Assemblage, place and globalisation' , Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46 (2) , pp. 284-298.

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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 Deleuzoguattarian assemblage thinking to explore how the concepts of the exteriority of relations, territorialisation, coding, and multiplicity provide insights into the dynamics through which interactions between places and translocal assemblages affect changes in the properties and capacities of places and of their component parts, the internal adjustment of places to changes in components, and the possible future forms that a place may take following specific interactions. As such, the framework outlined advances relational analysis by permitting deeper analysis of the mechanics through which individual places endure and change in the context of globalisation and how these produce uneven geographies of globalisation. The discussion is illustrated by examples from empirical research on globalisation and rural localities.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	** Article version: VoR ** From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications Router ** Licence for VoR version of this article starting on 23-02-2021: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ **Journal IDs: pissn 0020-2754; eissn 1475-5661 **History: issued 23-02-2021; published_online 23-02-2021
Schools:	Schools > School of Environment and Life Sciences
Journal or Publication Title:	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0020-2754
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Funders:	FP7 Ideas: European Research Council
SWORD Depositor:	Publications Router
Depositing User:	Publications Router
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2021 11:57
Last Modified:	16 Feb 2022 06:51
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/59768

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