In a globalized world, the complexity of mobility prompts varied approaches to conceptualize connections across social and spatial boundaries. Over the past decade an increasing number of scholars have elaborated translocality as an approach to comprehend embeddedness while being mobile. Scale is one core dimension in conceptualizations of translocality. However, a systematic analysis of how scale is used in translocal research is lacking. Our core objective is to close this gap by reviewing and assessing how scale is conceptualized in research on translocality. Furthermore we discuss – against the backdrop of the rich literature on scale – how translocality research can benefit from considering notions of scale in a more systematic way. We find that by emphasizing the transgression and reshaping of spatial and scalar boundaries, translocality – beyond viewing scale as a category of spatial structuration – stresses the malleability of hierarchically ordered socio-spatial spheres. We accordingly conclude that scale is one conceptual approach whose explicit usage can help us to examine and operationalize practices of and power relations within social interactions by which translocal space is produced and reworked at multiple (abstract and concrete) levels.

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跨地域研究中规模的重要性：规模在跨地域研究中的用途和潜力

在全球化的世界中，流动性的复杂性促使采用不同的方法来概念化跨越社会和空间边界的联系。在过去的十年中，越来越多的学者将跨地域性作为一种在移动的同时理解嵌入性的方法。规模是跨地域概念化的核心维度之一。然而，缺乏对跨地方研究如何使用规模的系统分析。我们的核心目标是通过审查和评估跨地域研究中规模的概念化方式来缩小这一差距。此外，我们讨论——在大量关于规模的文献的背景下——跨地域研究如何从以更系统的方式考虑规模概念中受益。我们发现，通过强调空间和标量边界的超越和重塑，跨地域性——超越将尺度视为空间结构的一个类别——强调了等级有序的社会空间领域的可塑性。因此，我们得出结论，规模是一种概念方法，它的显式使用可以帮助我们检查和操作社会互动中的权力关系的实践，通过这些做法，跨地域空间在多个（抽象和具体）层面上产生和再加工。