ROLAND LIPPUNER:  Reflexive Sozialgeographie

Bourdieus Theorie der Praxis als Grundlage für sozial- und kulturgeographisches Arbeiten nach dem cultural turn

In recent years the so called ‘cultural turn’ has begun to make a mark in German-speaking human geography. This article takes up the emerging criticism of this theoretical reorientation and discusses means to further develop theory in human geography. The paper argues that a stronger orientation to social theory can help to overcome the weaknesses of the ‘new cultural geography’. In the context of this assumption, potential applications of Pierre Bourdieu’s outline of a theory of practice are examined. It can be shown that the theorectical innovativeness of Bourdieu’s concept really comes to the fore when it is applied to the scientific practice of overservation and description itself as a theory of scientifc investigation. Thus it can become a starting point for a reflective social geography that aims to pay attention to its own ‘ways of seeing’ in the analysis of everyday geography-making

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