Considering Space : A Critical Concept for the Social Sciences

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911003660603321
• Autore: Bartmanski Dominik <1978->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: 2023; Milton : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2023; ©2024
• ISBN: 9781000930856; 1000930858
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 pages)
• Collana: The Refiguration of Space Series
• Classificazione: SOC015000SOC026000SOC026040
• Altri autori (Persone): FüllerHenning; HoerningJohanna; WeidenhausGunter
• Disciplina: 153.7/52
• Soggetti: Nonfiction; Sociology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: An Invitation to Spatial Theorizing -- Part I: Considering Space in Social Theory -- 2 Understanding Social Change: Refiguration -- 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 in 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 Socialisation ; Revisited -- 14 Placing Performance into a Distressed Space: The Case of San Berillo -- 15 Epilogue -- Index.
• Sommario/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.