ABSTRACT
My focus here is on ʻy focus her normativities’ as key sites at which the coordination of assemblages and the recombination of place occurred in 1990s Kyŏngju urban politics. Such normativities include visualisations, material points of view, obligatory procedures and conceptual objects raised to iconic importance, which I treat as themselves entangled in the associative dynamics of place-making. These were also nodes at which scaling was enacted, and it is through the drawing in of scales routinised as compulsory that certain Kyŏngju assemblages gained ethical forcefulness. This chapter thus seeks to add complexity to the ANT maxim to follow actors as actors make scales by way of post-ANT concerns with actors’ reflexivity in scale-making.
