Social Geography www.soc-geogr.net 1729-4274 1729-4312 5 1 2010 10.5194/sg-5-11-2010 http://www.soc-geogr.net/5/11/2010/ http://www.soc-geogr.net/5/11/2010/sg-5-11-2010.html http://www.soc-geogr.net/5/11/2010/sg-5-11-2010.pdf 11 19 2010-02-24 "Doing with space": towards a pragmatics of space M. Lussault M. Stock mathis.stock@iukb.ch Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, University of Lyon, France Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Sion, Switzerland This article intends to explore the conditions of possibility of a pragmatics of space. How are practices constructed through space? How are 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. Firstly we will delimit the field of what is termed here "pragmatics" as larger than "pragmatism", with reference to recent developments within French sociology. 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