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Looking at Locality from a Performative Perspective

The Case of the Polish-Belarusian Border

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2024

Filip Ryba
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Abstract

This critical reflection on the category of locality, which is associated with the performative practice of scaling, is based in the embodied experience of activism on the Polish-Belarusian border. Using the latest texts in the field of object-oriented ontology, locality is presented as a significant challenge to the (inter-/trans-/post-)disciplinary approach and confronted with new materialistic approaches to universality.

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TDR , Volume 68 , Issue 4 , December 2024 , pp. 160 - 171
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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