Der Konstruktivismus lernt laufen: "Doing more-than-representational geography"

Abstract

This contribution concentrates on embodied subjects as "on-going" topics of a social and cultural geography after and beyond the cultural turn - a geography that radicalises the achievements of the so called "new cultural geography" by way of extending the concept of representations in order to focus on performative practices, materialities and embodiments Taking the "sportification" of urban everyday spaces as example, it elaborates on the co-constitutive interrelations between embodied subjects and sociospatial conditions with reference to Foucault's and Butler's conceptions of the subject. Eventually, these conceptions are combined with a rather micro-sociological and interactive notion of subjects and practices (doings), aiming at an understanding of the social production of space that gives special attention to the subject - a subject that is both constituted by and constitutive of social and spatial structures. © 2011 Author(s).