Abstract
Social constructionism, the social construction of reality, is an umbrella term accentuating difference, situatedness, and positionality in knowledge production, which has had a far‐reaching influence on the contemporary social science and humanities fields, geography included. Contentions surrounding the theoretical validity and political potential of social constructionism are extensively associated with the notion of discourse variously adopted in a broad range of scholarship, from critical realism and Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory, to Butler's performativity theory. A non‐anthropocentric, nondiscourse‐centered approach, focused in geography on actor‐network theory and nonrepresentational theory, has further arisen as an ontological reflection on the prevailing debates of social constructionism. These various adaptations and modifications have contributed to a range of new avenues of research in human geography that stem from, yet seek to transcend, the limits of social constructionism.
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