“…For geographers, the potential of performance to reflect on contestations around, for example, place and identity is nothing new (see,e.g., Johnston & Pratt, ; Longhurst, ; Nash 2000). As Rogers (, p. 60) points out, theories and practices from the performing arts offer geography means through which to “reveal the experiential qualities of space and place” and “provide a way to think about their power‐laden politics.” Accordingly, geographers have long applied performance as a useful lens to better understand how different spatialities are lived, experienced, and constituted (see,e.g., Thrift, , ; Thrift & Dewsbury, ). Performance here constitutes a methodological lens that enables us to analyze urban space as performance.…”