O dywersyfikacji pojęć przestrzennych – zyski i straty

The article considers the consequences of spatial turn. This turn didnot limit itself merely to the creation of a new methodology and researchtools. Instead it covered a much wider scope, as it allowed conclusions to bedrawn not only on cultural discourse but also transformation within otherareas of research as politics, patterns of common memory andideology,as well as a change in the processes of establishing the rulesof sociallife. The awareness of the extent to which space determines the conditionsof existence was directly linked to the perception of human activity asinherently “located”. The growing interest into the spatial dimension ofindividual and collective experience provides an insight into the issue froma broader perspective. At the same time the topographical turn contributedto the reformulation of other basic terms such as language, subject, culture,literary and artistic practice, and finally, the research and the researcher’sposition in its own right.