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Considering Space
Considering Space demonstrates what has changed in the perception of space within the social sciences and how useful – indeed indispensable – this category is today. While the seemingly deterritorializing effects of digitalization might suggest that space is a secondary consideration, this book proves such a presumption wrong, with territories, borders, distances, proximity, geographical ecologies, land use, physical infrastructures – as well as concepts of space – all being shown still to matter, perhaps more than ever before. Seeking to show how society can and should be perceived as spatial, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography, architecture and urban studies.
Handbook of Qualitative and Visual Methods in Spatial Research
Listening, experiencing, drawing or interpreting spaces: narratives, experiences, visualizations and discourses can be helpful for the empirical investigation of spaces. This interdisciplinary handbook presents a broad spectrum of established methods and innovative method development to capture and understand different facets of spaces. Instructive explanations and concrete examples make the varied qualitative methods of spatial research understandable and applicable across disciplines. The theoretical and methodological aspects of qualitative spatial research form the framework of this handbook.
Out of This World
Examining Afro-German artists’ use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was first coined in the 1990s to describe African diasporic artists’ use of science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy to reimagine the diaspora’s pasts and to counter not only Eurocentric prejudices but also pessimistic narratives. Out of This World: Afro-German Afrofuturism focuses on contemporary Black German Afrofuturist literature and performance that critiques Eurocentrism and, specifically, German racism and colonial history. This young generation has, Priscilla Layne argues, engaged with Afrofuturism to disrupt linear time and imagine alternative worlds, to i...
The Condition of Democracy
Classical liberal democratic theory has provided crucial ideas for a still dominant and hegemonic discourse that rests on ideological conceptions of freedom, equality, peacefulness, inclusive democratic participation, and tolerance. While this may have held some truth for citizens in Western liberal-capitalist societies, such liberal ideals have never been realized in colonial, postcolonial and settler colonial contexts. Liberal democracies are not simply forms of rule in domestic national contexts but also geo-political actors. As such, they have been the drivers of processes of global oppression, colonizing and occupying countries and people, appropriating indigenous land, annihilating peo...
Spatial Transformations
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003036159, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. 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, driven as it is by inter alia, digitalization, transnationalization, and migration. Considering the ways in which emerging spatial phenomena are conditioned by an increasing interconnectedness, this book asks how spaces are changing as a result of mediatization, increased mobility, globalization, and social disl...
Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Through a variety of empirical studies, this volume offers fresh insights into the manner in which different forms of communicative action transform urban space. With attention to the methodological questions that arise from the attempt to study such changes empirically, it offers new theoretical foundations for understanding the social construction and reconstruction of spaces through communicative action. Seeing communicative action as the basic element in the social construction of reality and conceptualizing comm...
Sorting Machines
It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. Steffen Mau shows that this view is misleading: borders are not getting more permeable today, but rather are being turned into powerful sorting machines. Supported by digitalization, they have been upgraded to smart borders, and border control has expanded spatially on a massive scale. Mau shows how the new sorting machines create mobility and immobility at the same time: for some travellers, borders open readily, but for others they are closed more firmly than ever. While a small circle of privileged people can travel almost anywhere today, the vast majority of the world’s population continues to be systematically excluded. Nowhere is the Janus nature of globalization more evident than at the borders of the 21st century.
Polizei, Politik, Polis
Selbst eine staatliche Institution wie die Polizei wird von ihrem jeweiligen städtischen Kontext geprägt und prägt diesen gleichermaßen mit. Das Buch plausibilisiert diese Annahme am Beispiel des Themas Flucht und Migration nach 2015. Die öffentliche und politische Thematisierung von Fluchtzuwanderung ist häufig durch einen Sicherheitsdiskurs bestimmt. Anhand von Befunden aus sechs deutschen Städten werden die Deutungsmuster und Handlungsspielräume der Polizei im Umgang mit fluchtbedingter städtischer Vielfalt analysiert. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei städtische Praktiken im Zusammenhang mit der Aufnahme von Geflüchteten, in denen drei Aspekte miteinander vermittelt werden: die Rolle der örtlichen Polizei als staatliche Gewalt vor Ort (»Polizei«), die Relevanz stadtpolitischer Strategien im Umgang mit Fragen von Fluchtmigration (»Politik«) sowie die Bedeutung stadtgesellschaftlicher Akteure, Netzwerke und Diskurse (»Polis«).
Kleinstadtforschung
Knapp 30 Prozent der Einwohner*innen Deutschlands leben in Kleinstädten, die in Speckgürteln der Metropolregionen oder in peripheren Räumen liegen. Im ländlichen Kontext können Kleinstädte wichtige Anker sein, anderswo dienen sie eher als Wohn- und Erholungsorte. Das alltägliche Zusammenleben in und die Zukunft von Kleinstädten handeln die Akteur*innen vor Ort auf vielfältige Weise aus. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes beleuchten die Heterogenität von Kleinstädten durch diverse Fallstudien mit unterschiedlichen methodischen Ansätzen. In Reflexionen dieser Zugänge zeigen sie die Potentiale einer interdisziplinären Kleinstadtforschung auf und nehmen Themen wie Digitalisierung, Mobilität und Migration in den Blick.
Kontrollräume und Raumkontrolle
Wie verändern sich Leitstellen, Notrufzentralen und Schaltwarten, jene hochgradig diversen Räume, die für das reibungslose Funktionieren von Infrastrukturen wie Strom, Verkehr oder Notfallhilfe verantwortlich sind? David Joshua Schröder geht dieser Frage nach, indem er sich der neuen räumlichen Gestalt dieser Orte soziologisch zuwendet. Ihren Wandel nimmt er nicht nur zum Anlass, um neue Arbeitsweisen herauszuarbeiten, sondern er tastet sich auch an die Frage heran, was sich aus diesen Veränderungen für die heutige Raumkontrolle in der refigurierten Moderne schließen lässt. Dabei zeigt er auf, dass Raum und Digitalisierung hier auf eine Weise verbunden sind, die keinesfalls zu einer allmählichen Auflösung dieser Orte führt.
