EMBODIMENT AND MULTITERRITORIALITY IN CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: BEYOND DOMINATION, RESISTENCE AND TRADITION

Abstract

How does New Cultural Geography respond to the challenge of comprehending the physical and symbolic superposition of social phenomenas? In order to answer this question, I intend to reveal some of most recent changes in its theory, methodology and subjects. In the first half of this article, I developed an effort to synthesize the fundamental ideas of the New Cultural Geography since its beginning at the late 70’s, where its merits and vices are both represented. In example, the immaterial studies, the inter-subjectivity issues and the overdependence of fieldwork are all present as part of this synthesis. The second half of this article is concerned to newer approaches to Cultural Geography, as the ideas of resistance, tradition and territoriality are reviewed by several geographers. According to this newer approaches, Cultural Geography should be more ambitious to cope with a world lived through multiple scales. In order to do so, I presented the ideas of embodiment and multiple territorialities that bring us to see culture somehow in connection (and not necessarily in opposition to) with economy and politics.