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Showing how society can and should be perceived as spatial, this book demonstrates what has changed in the perception of space within the social sciences and how useful - indeed indispensable - concepts of space and spatial concepts remain today.
Sommario
1. Introduction: An Invitation to Spatial Theorizing Part I: Considering Space in Social Theory 2. Understanding Social Change: Refigurations; 3. Space in the Theory of Reflexive Modernization: The Location of Subjects from a Cosmopolitan Perspective; 4. Wittgenstein’s House: From Philosophy to Architecture to Philosophy; 5. Mapping Assemblages: Analytical Benefits of Thinking with Space; 6. The Invention of the Global: Constitutions of space in theories of globalization Part II: Considering Space in Global Epistemologies 7. Dividing the ‘World’: Spatial Binaries and the Global Perspective; 8. European Elsewheres: Global Sociologies of Space and Europe; 9. The Refiguration of the Social and the Re-Configuration of the Communal; 10. Caste, Class, and Space: Inequalities in India Part III: Considering Space in Meaning Making 11. A Dangerous Liaison? Space and the Field of Cultural Production; 12. Object Affordances, Space, and Meaning: The Case of Real Estate Staging; 13. Like a Child in a Supermarket: Locational Meanings and Locational Socialization Revisited; 14. Placing Performance into a Distressed Space: The Case of San Berillo; Epilogue
Info autore
Dominik Bartmanski is a professor of cultural sociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Henning Füller is a researcher at the Department of Geography, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Johanna Hoerning is a professor of sociology at Technical University Berlin.
Gunter Weidenhaus worked as a guest professor of sociology at the Technical University Berlin.
Riassunto
Showing how society can and should be perceived as spatial, this book demonstrates what has changed in the perception of space within the social sciences and how useful – indeed indispensable – concepts of space and spatial concepts remain today.
