Spatial Transformations: Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces

ISBN-13: 9781032114538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 322 str.

Angela Million; Christian Haid; Ignacio Castillo Ulloa

Opis

Bringing together the work of leading scholars from across the social sciences, this book examines a variety of subjective spatial experiences and knowledge production practices, in order to shed new light on the specifics of contemporary socio-spatial change, as driven by mediatization, mobility, globalization and social dislocation.

Spis treści

1. Navigating Spatial Transformations Through the Refiguration of Spaces  Part I: Spatiality and Temporality  2. The Refiguration of Space, Circulation, and Mobility  3. Spatial Occupation—Destruction—Virtualization: Types, Categories, and Processes of a Crucial Factor in Social Life  4. The Historicity of the Refiguration of Spaces Under the Scrutiny of Pre-COVID São Paulo Homeless Pedestrians  5. Spatiotemporal Entanglements: Insights From History  6. Slow Movement on the Slope: On Architecture Principe’s Theory of the Oblique Function and the Role of Circulation in Architectural and Urban Design  Part II: Spatiality, Social Inequality, and the Economy  7. ‘Open Borders’: A Postcolonial Critique  8. The Centrality of Race to Inequality Across the World-System: Old Figurations and New Reconfigurations  9. Spatial Transformations in World-Historical Perspective: Towards Mapping the Space and Time of Wealth Accumulation  10. Infrastructures for Global Production in Ethiopia and Argentina: Commodity Chains and Urban Spatial Transformation  11. Separate Worlds? Explaining the Current Wave of Regional Economic Polarization  12. Spatial Transformations and Spatio-Temporal Coupling: Links Between Everyday Shopping Behaviour and Changes in the Retail Landscape  Part III: Digitization and Visualization of Space  13. Network Spillover Effects and the Dyadic Interactions of Virtual, Social, and Spatial  14. Talking to My Community Elsewhere: Bringing Together Networked Public Spheres and the Concept of Translocal Communities  15. Annotating Places: A Critical Assessment of Two Hypotheses on How Locative Media Transform Urban Public Places  16. Representational and Animatic Corporeality: Refiguring Bodies and Digitally Mediated Cities  17. Refiguring Spaces: Transformative Aspects of Migration and Tourism  Part IV: Imagining, Producing, and Negotiating Space  18: Ontological Security, Globalization, and Geographical Imagination  19. Where We Turn to: Rethinking Networks, Urban Space, and Research Methods  20. Reconfiguring the Spaces of Urban Politics: Circuits, Territories, and Territorialization  21. Appropriating Berlin’s Tempohomes  22. "I Spy with My Little Eye": Children’s Actual Use and Experts’ Intended Design of Public Space