Social Geography Discussions www.soc-geogr-discuss.net 1816-1499 1816-1502 5 1 2009 10.5194/sgd-5-1-2009 http://www.soc-geogr-discuss.net/5/1/2009/ http://www.soc-geogr-discuss.net/5/1/2009/sgd-5-1-2009.html http://www.soc-geogr-discuss.net/5/1/2009/sgd-5-1-2009.pdf 1 23 2009-02-23 "Doing with space": towards a pragmatics of space M. Lussault M. Stock mathis.stock@iukb.ch University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, France Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Sion, Switzerland This article intends to explore the conditions of possibility of a pragmatics of space. How practices are constituted through space, how the different ways of practising places are informed by different aspects of spatial dimensions? In order to get into this question, three points are developed. First, we will explicit the usefulness of the notion by proposing a shift from geographies of "being in space" towards geographies of "doing with space". 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