For some authors a translocal perspective provides a vehicle to engage with subjective and
phenomenological dimensions of place-making. Situatedness during mobility, according to
Brickell and Datta (2011a), is embodied and experienced in places. Places, as Oakes and
Schein (2006a, p. 18) put it, are defined by subjective “meaning, history, and practices” that
transcend various spatial scales. Although these hermeneutically inspired approaches to
translocality revolve around questions of identities, narratives, imaginaries and symbolic
representations (Freitag and von Oppen 2010a; Hall and Datta 2010; Lambek 2011; Verne
2012), others expand their conceptual scope to include the material and physical dimensions
of place (McKay 2003).