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Habitus is the presence of the past or the constant referral to the past as the reference for the present activity. As such, the habitus is created by the past conditions, but defined together with its application in the present condition. It governs the practice by referring to past experiences in the past and present context and allowing for their reproduction. The limitations of this reproduction process are set by the historical and socially situated conditions and therefore does not produce random or unpredictable novelty (Bourdieu 1990). In this sense the habitus is responsible for recreating successful practices or, as Bourdieu calls them, positively sanctioned activities for each task. The concept of the habitus is further detailed in Chap. 1 in regard to the cyclical pattern and routines the thesis is focusing on in an urban context.
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Neuhaus, F. (2015). Appendix. In: Emergent Spatio-temporal Dimensions of the City. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09849-4_9
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