Translocal assemblages: learning, space and development

Abstract

DRAFT PAPER In this paper, I deploy an analytic of ‘translocal assemblage ’ as a means for conceptualising learning in development. I offer a relational topology that is open to how actors within development construct different spatial imaginaries and practices in their work. In using the pre-fix ‘translocal’, I am signifying three orientations. First, translocal assemblages are composites of place-based formations which exchange ideas, knowledge, practices, materials and resources across sites. Second, assemblage is an attempt to emphasise that translocal development formations are more than just the connections between sites. Sites in translocal assemblages have more depth that the notion of ‘node ’ or ‘point ’ suggests-as connoted by network-in terms of their histories, the labour required to produce them, and their inevitable capacity to exceed the connections between other groups or places in the formation. Third, they are not simply a spatial category, output, or resultant formation, but signify doing, performance and events. I examine the potential of assemblage to offer an alternative account to that of the ‘network’, the predominant and often de facto

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