The Refiguration of Space
About the Book Series
Based on the premise that what is social always takes on a spatial form, this series explores the changes wrought in the relations of human-beings to spaces and their spatial practices by current social transformations, conflicts, crises and uncertainties. Welcoming studies from disciplines across the social sciences, such as sociology, geography and urban studies, books in the series consider the ways in which people (re-)negotiate and (re-)construct special orders according to a common pattern of ‘refiguration’, a process that often involves conflict and is frequently shaped by phenomena such as mediatization, translocalisation and polycontexturalisation.
The Social Quality of Public Space: Integration, Strategy, Subjectivation
1st Edition
Edited
By Letteria G. Fassari, Martina Löw
December 08, 2025
This book examines the concept of quality from a social perspective. Using the example of public spaces, it demonstrates the analytical and practical benefits that can be gained from an experience-based approach to defining quality. Sociology and related social sciences have rarely explored the ...
Spatial Conflicts and Conflictual Spaces: The Dynamics of Refiguration
1st Edition
Edited
By Hubert Knoblauch, Vivien Sommer, Barbara Pfetsch
August 07, 2025
This volume explores the refiguration of space as a theoretical framework, presenting empirical studies on spatial conflicts and emerging conflictual spaces across different regions and scales. It contains contributions which follow varied theoretical threads and represent different geospatial ...
The Spaces of Public Issues: How Social Media Discourses Shape Public Imaginations of Issue Spatiality
1st Edition
By Daniela Stoltenberg
June 27, 2025
Ideas about matters of public concern are shaped by the spaces associated with them: Events occur in particular places, political regulations apply to specific territories, people in different locations are differentially affected by issues. Yet, political communication research has neglected the ...
Intersectionality and the City: Exploring Violence and Inequality in Urban Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucie Bernroider, Anthony Miro Born, Christy Kulz, Sung Un Gang
June 06, 2025
This book combines intersectional perspectives and urban research to demonstrate the importance of intersectionality as a concept that can complement “refigurational” understandings of social change as the outcome of spatial conflicts. Showing how intersectionality enables us to grasp the ...
Considering Space: A Critical Concept for the Social Sciences
1st Edition
Edited
By Dominik Bartmanski, Henning Füller, Johanna Hoerning, Gunter Weidenhaus
December 18, 2024
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 ...
The Evolution of Young People’s Spatial Knowledge
1st Edition
By Ignacio Castillo Ulloa, Anna Juliane Heinrich, Angela Million, Jona Schwerer
December 18, 2024
Young people imagine, perceive, experience, talk about, use, and produce space in a wide variety of ways. In doing so, they acquire and produce stocks of spatial knowledge. A quite dynamic and ever-changing process by nature, young people’s production and acquisition of spatial knowledge are ...
Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriela B. Christmann, Hubert Knoblauch, Martina Löw
May 27, 2024
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 ...
Matters of Revolution: Urban Spaces and Symbolic Politics in Berlin and Warsaw After 1989
1st Edition
By Dominik Bartmanski
March 31, 2022
Symbols matter, and especially those present in public spaces, but how do they exert influence and maintain a hold over us? Why do such materialities count even in the intensely digitalized culture? This book considers the importance of urban symbols to political revolutions, examining manifold ...
Spatial Transformations: Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela Million, Christian Haid, Ignacio Castillo Ulloa, Nina Baur
October 18, 2021
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 ...