ABSTRACT
Binaries here then play an important role in creating space, as well as helping to draw the conceptual terrain and boundaries within it. Focusing instead on relational and spatial assemblages, and flattening the various actors within this, demonstrates that scale is not, and cannot be, a separate 'thing', but instead that we have interpenetrating relational dynamics between what have traditionally been seen as scales for response. As we saw in the discussion of the legal subject above, changes in the embodied context, and thus their entanglement in particular assemblages, already does impact their subjective experience. Whilst relational approaches often pose significant challenges to the methodological and/or normative individualism at the heart of liberal legal approaches, a spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences provides additional tools to deepen the critique offered by relationality, and to avoid falling back into this binary thinking.
