  One method of navigating the conditions of incommensurability is recognizing the complexity and diversity of speaking positions with which we engage. The term transloca has been argued to aid in elucidating such complexities of difference. Embodying both the processes of translation (“trans”) and the material effects of location (“loca”), the transloca highlights multiple dimensions that shape conditions of difference (Alvarez 2014: 4). Following the claims about translocation, transloca as a subject position attends to the movement of bodies, text, capital, and theory along the North-South axis as they produce new epistemologies for apprehending the globalizing Americas (Alvarez 2014: 4). Translocas are world-traveling translators, cultural and political mediators, and hence also agents of transculturation (Alvarez 2014: 8). The term is intended to illuminate the way in which subjectivity is forged in and through movement across hemispheres mediated by location and translation. Attending to the dimensions of hemispheric movement elucidates the conditions of alterity that generate incommensurability, but also puts into focus the way translation mediates the processes of identity formation.