ABSTRACT
The conceptual frame of “embodied space” integrates body/space/culture and connects microanalyses of individual bodies and place-making to macroanalyses of social, economic and political forces.1 Embodied space addresses both the experiential and material aspects of the body in space as well as the merging of body/space as a location that can communicate, transform and contest existing social structures. The addition of the idea that embodied spaces have “trajectories” as well as time-and space-specific goals and intentions that are personally, culturally and politically directed brings greater agency and an appreciation of power dynamics to the theorization of individual and collective bodies and their movements.
