Geography-making

From Geography

The term geography-making stands central in the concept of everyday regionalizations as it is described by Benno Werlen. The theory of everyday regionalizations emphasizes that space is a social construct, ultimately a category of thought through which human beings make sense of, and then act within and upon, the world around them. (B. Werlen, 2009).

Werlen describes Geography-making as: “ the many ways in which human beings mark out – through their ideas and practices – what they evidently regard and act upon as meaningful places or ‘regional’ entities, or nation-states perhaps, in the course of which they lend a constructed reality to such ‘regions’ within the conduct of their everyday lives (hence ‘everyday regionalizations’).’’

What Werlen is saying is that the focus should be less on the space and structure surrounding the subject, but more on the subject itself and his or her actions. Because of the theory Werlen is promoting, that the actions of the subject and the sense making provide space. There for geography-making – the process of subjects creating and give meaning to space – should be taking into account.

References

• Werlen, B. (2009a). Everyday Regionalisations. Elsevier.

• Werlen, B. (2009b). Structurationist Geography. Elsevier.

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• page created by Jesper Remmen --JesperRemmen 14:24, 22 October 2012 (CEST)