Text, talk, things, and the subpolitics of performing place

► Performing place in border area by expertise based name-giving, map-making, installation object. ► This is a form of subpolitics involving politicization and depoliticization. ► It involved the articulation of certain values and also the ignoring and exclusion of others. ► The use of 'expertise' as a key depoliticizing activity. ► Local and European ambitions coalesced and reinforced each other.