이글은, 로컬리티 연구가 글로벌화라는 환경에서 지역의 상품화에 편승하거나 단순히 저항하는 로컬리즘(localism) 뿐만 아니라 학문적 혹은 이데올로기적 유행에 따라서 로컬리티를 본질적으로 가치화하려는 엘리트적 시선 또한 경계할 필요가 있다는 생각에서, 로컬리티-기반의 이해라는 접근을 통해 이런 흐름들에 비판적인 하나의 결을 제시해보기 위한 예비적 시도이다. 이를 위해 먼저, 근대적 공간의 생산과 밀어내기의 폭력적 메커니즘의 형성과 전개의 역사적 과정을 근대적 언어의 생산과 연관 속에서 살펴본다. 근대적 개념들로 구성되는 경계와 공간이 그것들에 ‘정합하는’ 새로운 언어적 체계 수립을 통하여 법적․제도적으로 일반화됨에 따라 땅(노동․관계․생활문화)과 인간을 분리시키는 과정에 주목한다. 다음으로, 그런 분리와 밀려남에서 기인하는 ‘그 너머’의 장소들(위치)과 목소리(시선)의 역설적인 힘 혹은 강함을 탐색해본다. 이는 근대적 공간 권력에 의해 포섭/배제, 침입/강탈되는 사이 혹은 틈새 공간의 곤경과 더불어 저력을 확인하는 작업이기도 하다. 마지막으로, 이런 부분들을 어떻게 접근하고 이해할 것인가 하는 연구(자)의 성찰적 문제와 연관시켜서 로컬리티-기반의 이해의 (불)가능성을 논의한다.

This paper could be a preliminary trial to suggest an approach of critical locality studies through locality-Based understanding. Established regional studies and current locality studies have often tended to incline not only to the commodification of regions or anti-globalization localism but also to the elitist perspectives making locality itself an essential value. I assume a critical position toward those currents in and out of the academy. First, the historical processes, that the production of modern space and the mechanism of violent expulsion had formed and developed mainly in England, are presented relating to the production of modern language during the period of enclosure movements. I keep an eye on the processes that borders and spaces constructed by modern concepts had separated people from land(labor․relations․culture). Modern concepts squarely defined the meanings of words dumping the complexity, ambiguity, and cultural foundations of the meanings of traditional words generated on the land and dynamics of people's relations. Second, I try to illuminate the potential of the beyond places(positions) and voices(perspectives) divided by separations and expulsions in modern societies. This exploration means that it ascertains the predicament and potential of in-between or interstitial spaces subsumed/excluded and invaded/looted mentally and materially by the power of modern space. Finally, the (im)possibility of locality-Based understanding will be discussed relating to the self-reflection of modern research(er) in the processes of approaching and understanding the places and voices from those.

This paper could be a preliminary trial to suggest an approach of critical locality studies through locality-Based understanding. Established regional studies and current locality studies have often tended to incline not only to the commodification of regions or anti-globalization localism but also to the elitist perspectives making locality itself an essential value. I assume a critical position toward those currents in and out of the academy. First, the historical processes, that the production of modern space and the mechanism of violent expulsion had formed and developed mainly in England, are presented relating to the production of modern language during the period of enclosure movements. I keep an eye on the processes that borders and spaces constructed by modern concepts had separated people from land(labor․relations․culture). Modern concepts squarely defined the meanings of words dumping the complexity, ambiguity, and cultural foundations of the meanings of traditional words generated on the land and dynamics of people's relations. Second, I try to illuminate the potential of the beyond places(positions) and voices(perspectives) divided by separations and expulsions in modern societies. This exploration means that it ascertains the predicament and potential of in-between or interstitial spaces subsumed/excluded and invaded/looted mentally and materially by the power of modern space. Finally, the (im)possibility of locality-Based understanding will be discussed relating to the self-reflection of modern research(er) in the processes of approaching and understanding the places and voices from those.

border, language, modern space, the beyond, locality studies, locality-Based understanding