Foucault statt Fürst? Gedanken zu einem an Bedeutung gewinnenden Paradigma

Especially drawing on the contributions of Zimmermann (2012) and Balke and Reimer (2016) published in the journal “Raumforschung und Raumordnung”, this article deals with research done under the keywords constructivism, discourse and governmentality. Taking the example of those two contributions the author presents his thoughts on the relationship between the emerging social constructivist paradigm on the one hand and the (previous) mainstream on the other hand. He argues for an open discussion in order to improve the understanding of commonalities and divergences between these approaches.