ABSTRACT
The terms translocal and transnational enable nuanced ways of understanding how people relate to place that suit the contemporary world’s complexities. They provide critical perspectives on positionality and relationality apt for a decentred, pluralistic, and frequently polarised world. This chapter explores the disciplinary origins of these terms; locates them in the larger story of globalisation and the pressure this has exerted on national, cultural, and political identities; investigates why arts theorists have recently embraced these terms for repairing broken formulas of ‘international’ practice and policy; and discusses European theatre examples which animate and stretch their meanings.
