ABSTRACT
This chapter considers and interprets ways in which space is performatively encountered. It compares ideas of performativity with those of embodied practice and their combined contributions, oriented to an exploration of spacing, with regard to the means to adjust, reconstitute, and reimagine one's life through encounters with space. The argument seeks to bring space into discussions of performativity from ethnographies of the apparently mundane activities of allotment holding and caravanning. The chapter discusses space closer to a practical realization of performativity and explores the potential of the individual to reconstitute life through an articulation of spacing. It stresses on the mechanisms of spacing and how the individual negotiates tensions. The chapter explains the tension between the related threads of performance, 'performativity', and the embedded practice and how they are making sense of the way of the world and aspects of it may be adjusted. It sketches how individuals act performatively through narratives and field descriptions.
