Considering Space

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.

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.

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