Intercultural interaction and 'situational places': a perspective for urban cultural geography within and beyond the performative turn

摘要

With the performative turn in social sciences and the humanities the conceptof performance has arrived in human geography. Performance denotes anunderstanding of social actions and practices as constitutive fornon-representational realities. This paper looks at the relationship betweenplaces and performance especially in urban geography and develops the newterm "situational place" to grasp the increasing phenomenon of(intercultural) encounters in the cities of modern world society."Situational places" are situated performances of these (intercultural)interactions between strangers in cities of the contemporary world society.With the aid of performance theory the influence of the omnipresentinteractions between strangers in cities on urban space is conceptualized.Therewith, we hope to present some fruitful theoretical and empiricalpossibilities for a cultural urban geography within and beyond theperformative turn.