Social Geography Discussions www.soc-geogr-discuss.net 1816-1499 1816-1502 6 1 2010 10.5194/sgd-6-141-2010 http://www.soc-geogr-discuss.net/6/141/2010/ http://www.soc-geogr-discuss.net/6/141/2010/sgd-6-141-2010.html http://www.soc-geogr-discuss.net/6/141/2010/sgd-6-141-2010.pdf 141 164 2010-08-11 Intercultural interaction and "situational places": a perspective for urban cultural geography within and beyond the performative turn P. Dirksmeier peter.dirksmeier@geo.hu-berlin.de I. Helbrecht Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany With the performative turn in social sciences and the humanities the concept of performance has arrived in human geography. Performance denotes an understanding of social actions and practices as constitutive for non-representational realities. This paper looks at the relationship between places and performance especially in urban geography and develops the new term "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 omnipresent interactions between strangers in cities on urban space is conceptualized. Therewith, we hope to present some fruitful theoretical and empirical possibilities for a cultural urban geography within and beyond the performative turn. <br><br> Mit der performativen Wende in den weiteren Sozialwissenschaften ist das kulturtheoretische Konzept der Performanz in der Humangeographie angekommen. Performanz verweist auf ein Verständnis von sozialen Handlungen und Praktiken, das als konstitutiv für die Herstellung von Realitäten aufgefasst wird. Der Aufsatz fokussiert die wechselseitige Beziehung von Orten und Performanzen speziell in der kulturwissenschaftlich informierten Stadtgeographie. Er entwickelt den Begriff des &#0132;situativen Ortes&#0147;, um eine räumliche Konsequenz der interkulturellen Begegnungen in der Weltgesellschaft zu erfassen. &#0132;Situativer Ort&#0147; bezeichnet die räumliche Situiertheit der Performanzen von interkulturellen Interaktionen zwischen Fremden in den Städten der Weltgesellschaft. Mithilfe der Performanztheorie konzeptionalisiert der Beitrag mithin den Einfluss der omnipräsenten Interaktionen zwischen Fremden auf den urbanen Raum. Das Ziel dieses Vorgehens ist ein Aufzeigen der theoretischen wie empirischen Möglichkeiten in der kulturgeographischen Stadtforschung nach der performativen Wende. 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