This paper offers an account of the co-constitutive interaction between spatial and discursive dynamics in present-day politics. I focus on Podemos, a recently established party in Spain that was able to secure 20% of votes in the 2016 general election. Building on critical geography’s political understanding of space, together with cultural and discourse studies’ insights on place representation, formulation, and embodiment, I examine Podemos’ parliamentary performances, as well as their different moral evaluations by opposing parties. Throughout my analysis, I show, first, that the transgressive nature of certain acts is intrinsically linked to the particular spatial relations enforced in institutional contexts, and second, how, in their discursive struggles over common sense, different actors consistently mobilize space as a moralizing agent. The different strategies adopted reveal a tension between dominant and emergent ways of ‘doing politics’ that parallels competing visions of the relationship, in contemporary Spain, between civic and institutional spaces.

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表演（在）地方，道德化（通过）空间

本文阐述了当今政治中空间动态和话语动态之间的共同构成相互作用。我关注 Podemos，这是一个最近在西班牙成立的政党，能够在 2016 年大选中获得 20% 的选票。以批判地理学对空间的政治理解为基础，结合文化和话语研究对地方表征、表述和体现的见解，我考察了 Podemos 的议会表演，以及反对党对他们不同的道德评价。在我的整个分析中，我首先表明，某些行为的越界性质与制度环境中强制执行的特定空间关系有着内在的联系，其次，在他们对常识的话语斗争中，不同的行动者如何始终如一地动员空间作为一种道德化代理人。