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Benno Werlen is the founder of the concept of 'world binding'.
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It is the key concept op action/agencycentered human/social geography and helps to understand the everyday geography-making.
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The basic idea of world binding is that we are behaving in a absolute and material space and our behaviour is determined by that space. This space is also described as 'the container space', derived from Newton's ideas.
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Key concept of action/agencycentered human/social geography, based on the shift from a space-centered geographical imagination to the
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Not only the behaviour of humans can studied by this concept of world binding, but also societies and cultures.
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analysis of the everyday geography-making. It expresses the basic assumption, that the postulation of the study of societies and cultures in space or the study of space includes to a certain extend the acceptance of a (pre-modern) concept of an absolute and material (container, based on Newton's ideas) space. An action/agency-centered perspective develops a worldview in which the embodied subjects form the nucleus of geographic research, analyzing how they bring the ‘world’ to themselves under spatially dis-embedded conditions (space-time
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To study the agents in their container space, you need have in mind the way of regionalizations. Regionalization is the concept of how people relate to the world around them. An import term in regionalization is territorialism. Also important to world binding is the knowledge about 'the specific forms of appropriations and specific power' (Werlen, 2009).
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distanciation/globalization), on the basis of everyday regionalizations, specific forms of appropriations and specific power relations.
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Regionalizations = how people relate to the world. You need the territorialisation to get in touch with other people.
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An objective view of space is difficult to obtain, because humans always act with a subjective view.
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Territorialism = ??
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Behaving in space and determind by space.
 
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Objective space is difficult because we always have a certain interpretation of space.
 
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* Werlen, B., ''Structurasionist Geography'' ( Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, 2009 Elsevier )
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* Werlen, B., ''Structurasionist Geography'' ( Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, 2009 Elsevier )

Revision as of 13:49, 4 October 2010

Benno Werlen is the founder of the concept of 'world binding'. It is the key concept op action/agencycentered human/social geography and helps to understand the everyday geography-making. The basic idea of world binding is that we are behaving in a absolute and material space and our behaviour is determined by that space. This space is also described as 'the container space', derived from Newton's ideas.

Not only the behaviour of humans can studied by this concept of world binding, but also societies and cultures. To study the agents in their container space, you need have in mind the way of regionalizations. Regionalization is the concept of how people relate to the world around them. An import term in regionalization is territorialism. Also important to world binding is the knowledge about 'the specific forms of appropriations and specific power' (Werlen, 2009).

An objective view of space is difficult to obtain, because humans always act with a subjective view.


Source

  • Werlen, B., Structurasionist Geography ( Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, 2009 Elsevier )
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