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Taking and Making Place Through Sound: From the Phonotope to the Phonocene Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Rémy Bocquillon
Although the spatiality of sounding and listening practices has been broadly and deeply discussed within humanities in general and sound studies in particular, the implications of such “place-taking” and “place-making” characteristics remain highly relevant nowadays. Starting from Peter Sloterdijk’s concept of the phonotope, through which sound and space are closely related in the production of social
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The Absurdity of the Ordinary: The Fragile Affinity Between Imagination and Materiality in the Finnish Urban Periphery Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Pekka Tuominen
This anthropological study focuses on spatially ordered dimensions of sociocultural life in Kontula, a suburban housing estate located at the urban margins of Helsinki, Finland. With a notorious reputation since its construction in the 1960s, it has come to represent the numerous ills of contemporary urbanity, from poverty and substance abuse to failed immigration policies. Its urban transformation
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Disability and Spatial Exclusion Under COVID-19 in South Africa Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Vic McKinney, Emma Louise McKinney, Leslie Swartz, Lieketseng Ned
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a range of existing inequalities. People with disabilities are disadvantaged worldwide and frequently denied spaces within personal and public contexts. This article focuses on the environmental and functional experiences of people with disabilities and service providers in South Africa during the pandemic. Lockdown conditions resulted in diminished spaces and loss of
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Secularity and Urban Gentrification: A Spatial Analysis of Downtown Buddhist Temples in Shanghai Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Weishan Huang
This essay examines the process of revival of Han Buddhist communities since 1978 under the state-planned acceleration of urban gentrification in Shanghai. After examining data from 120 temples together with ethnographic research in two downtown temples, the author finds two key changes in urban Buddhism: First, political constructions cause an increasing divide between the city center and suburban
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Reworlding: Urban Play as Method for Exploring Alternate Social Imaginaries Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Troy Innocent
Urban play is a way of being, a frame for the reimagination of the world, and an opening up of potential and possibility. Playable cities from around the world demonstrate that this approach to civic engagement can improve public spaces and infrastructure and connect people to their cities and each other. The city as playground may be explored through creative practice methodologies and practices that
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Playing in the “Third Place”: How Games and Play Are Transforming Public Libraries Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Danielle Wyatt, Dale Leorke
Games and play are a growing presence in public libraries, part of a suite of new spaces and services that respond to digitization and new urban policy imperatives. Drawing on observation of library spaces and interviews with library staff in Australia, Finland, and Singapore ( n = 27), we examine the myriad ways games and play are transforming the library: from its architectural design and furnishings
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Erasing the Pink on the World Atlas: Re-Mapping African American Literature Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Yanli He
This article aims at analyzing Henry Louis Gates’ theoretical strategies for remapping the African American literary space within the context of both American literature and world literary system. Gates’ strategies can be delineated through four stages. Firstly, he excavates a vast array of African American literary texts. In the second stage, he traces the lineage of African American literary theory
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Extensions: The Embodiment, Spatiality, Materiality, and Sociality of Neighboring in Danish Public Housing Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Tina Gudrun Jensen
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from a public housing area in Copenhagen, this article explores how dwelling, spatiality, materiality, sociality, and the senses interplay and inform different qualities of neighbor relations. Starting from the individual home space and moving to the space of the stair-case shared with other residents who live next door, below, or above, the article argues that neighbor
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Si(gh)ting the City: An Uber View of Calcutta Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Neha Gupta
In this article, I take a socio-material approach to highlight the changes in the legibility of the built environment due to digital interfacing and the subsequent fragmentation of urban space. Using Uber as an example, I demonstrate how app-reliant mobility practices, reflexive of the changing mobility values in the city of Calcutta, manifest certain “temporal spaces”—quasi-virtual spaces of the
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Mapping the Interior: The Consolidation of an Idea Across Disciplines, Movements, and Geographical Regions in the Early-to-Mid 20th Century Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Anna Daly
The use of the word interior to refer to the inside of a house emerged in the 19th century and assumed some significance in modernist discourses. While the rise of digital media has shaped contemporary notions of space, these notions remain indebted to an idea of interiority that coalesced early last century. This discussion demonstrates the significance of the interior to modernists of different stripes
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Spaced Apart: Autoethnographies of Access Throughout the COVID 19 Pandemic. Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Arseli Dokumaci,Raphaelle Bessette-Viens,Nicholas Goberdhan,Simone Lucas,Amy Mazowita,Jessie Stainton
In this article, we present six autoethnographies of lives marked by crisis that reflect on the issues of access, very broadly defined, that the COVID 19 pandemic has raised or redefined for each of us. As the time of crisis has made access concerns more and more evident it also exposes how access is not an issue just for disabled people, but for all lives. Drawing on recent scholarship in disability
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Spaces of Displacement on the Island of Imbros/Gökçeada Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Sevcan Ercan
This article investigates spaces of displacement within the context of Imbros, employing it as a case study to provide a novel perspective on the global phenomenon of displacement. Imbros/Gökçeada ...
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Role and Meaning of Public Space: Findings From the Margins of Milan Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Paolo Grassi, Francesca Cognetti
This article investigates the meanings of the public space, specifically addressing urban marginalized areas. It explores the issue of inequality in relation to public space and how this is reflect...
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The Constitution of Dubai’s Mobile-App-Mediated Spatiotemporal Glocalization: Postphenomenology and Postdigitality in Dialogue Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Amir H. Y. Salama, Rania Magdi Fawzy
The present study proposes the notion-complex of “spatiotemporal glocalization” as a potentially postdigital phenomenon inhering in the touristscape representations mediated by mobile apps, with an...
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Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Marian Burchardt, Julia Martínez-Ariño, Mar Griera, Paul Bramadat
Over long periods, interdisciplinary debates in urban studies on the relationships between religion and urban space were influenced by mainstream versions of modernization theory. These were based ...
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The Rotting City: Surrealist Arts of Noticing the Urban Anthropocene Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Japhy Wilson
This article develops a surrealist approach to researching and writing about the urban Anthropocene, as a critical contribution to existing literatures on “arts of noticing” and “staying with the t...
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Taking Play Seriously in Urban Design: The Evolution of Barcelona’s Superblocks Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Marco Amati, Quentin Stevens, Salvador Rueda
The original Cerdà plan (Pla Cerdà) of 1855 for the extension of Barcelona is famous for its grid array of large blocks and wide streets to promote circulation. Each block was originally intended t...
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Political Misuse of Hagia Sophia as the Lost Object of the Istanbul Conquest Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Berin F. GÜR
For Islamist-nationalist circles in Turkey, Istanbul’s conquest in 1453 is a significant triumph inherited from the Ottoman Empire that denotes the Turkish nation’s founding moment. In this article...
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The Concept of Tent as a Temporary Architecture in the Millennium Era Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Rudy Trisno, Denny Husin, Fermanto Lianto, Christiana Erika Hartoyo
The phenomenon of temporary architecture in contemporary urban and rural areas occurs due to permanent space limitations in accommodating dynamic environments. One of the temporary architectures th...
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COVID-19 as a Crisis of Confinement: What We Can Learn From the Lived Experiences of People With Intellectual Disabilities in Care Institutions Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Adrienne de Ruiter, Alistair Niemeijer, Pieter Dronkers, Carlo Leget, Sara Dekking
While the COVID-19 crisis has affected people all around the world, it has not affected everyone in the same way. Besides glaring international differences, disparities in personal and situational ...
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“Look at Me!”: The Public and Digital Political Campaigns of People With Disability During Chile’s Sociopolitical Crisis Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Florencia Herrera, Raimundo Frei
In a context of multiple crises, an important number of people with disability competed to participate in drafting a new constitution in a remote Latin American country. Their experience shows how ...
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Long-Term Care Homes: Carceral Spaces in Times of Crisis or Perpetually? Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Ana Koncul, Christine Kelly, Katie Aubrecht, Ruth Bartlett
This article explores whether isolation and control observed during COVID-19 are a pandemic effect or a perpetual socio-spatial feature of long-term care (LTC) culture. We use narrative analysis to...
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The Song of Food Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Navreet Kaur Rana
“The Song of Food” brings to light a relationship that exists between the soundscape and the foodscape of a geographical location. The research studies the rhymes or songs that are sung by food-sel...
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Rethinking Restriction in Residential Aged Care: Dis/Abling Movement and Relations in the Time of COVID-19 Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Angela R. Y. Zhang, Tanya Zivkovic
Restricting movement is a major focus in policy directives to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in aged care homes. In this article, we rethink dominant framing of restriction through a critical examin...
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A Walk in the Park With Robodog: Navigating Around Pedestrians Using a Spot Robot as a “Guide Dog” Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Brian L. Due
This article explores how visually impaired people (VIP) navigate around (a) stationary people and (b) moving people, when guided by the Boston Dynamics’ robotic “dog” and its human operator. By fo...
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Spaces of Exclusion and Neglect: The Impact of COVID-19 on People With Disabilities in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Stephen Thompson, Brigitte Rohwerder
This research investigates how COVID-19 has affected experiences of people with disabilities in low- and middle-income contexts. A qualitative approach was used to collect data as the pandemic prog...
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Indigenous Cartographies: Pervasive Games and Place-Based Storytelling Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Olivia Guntarik, Hugh Davies, Troy Innocent
With the rise of pervasive games in the last two decades, peaking with Pokémon GO, questions surrounding the perceptions, use, and ownership of public space have rapidly emerged. Beyond commercial ...
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İstanbul Street Rhythms: A Field Guide to Short Expressive Ensembles Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Jameson Kısmet Bell
This article presents the field guide as an alternate format to the anthology in documenting short literary expressions. Anthologies often isolate, collect, and remove literary forms from their hab...
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Comparative Spatial Intimacies and the Affective Geography of Home: Imaginaries and Sense-Regimes in the Soviet-Era Baltics Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Epp Annus
This essay investigates Soviet-era homesites in the Baltic states as combinations of home imaginaries and people’s affective, sensorial relationship to the materiality of their home space. The aspe...
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Tactical Chor(e)ographies: Tactics of Inhibition as a Threat to Public Space in Limassol’s Seafront Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Theodoros Kouros
This article explores the area that spans between the boardwalk and the Limassol Marina to highlight the tensions between two major trends in terms of the constructions of urban spaces worldwide, n...
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Cultivating the Symbolic Capital of Singularity: The Vineyard, From Space to Place Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Elizabeth Carter
This article considers how local conditions of any one place both impact and are impacted by the geo-political and economic conditions of the wider world. Using the microcosm of the French winegrap...
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Parkour, Graffiti, and the Politics of (In)Visibility in Aestheticized Cityscapes Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Nicola De Martini Ugolotti, Carlo Genova
In the past decades, urban scholars have discussed at length how the production of aesthetically pleasing and consumption-enticing cityscapes has become the core of postindustrial urban economies. ...
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Inside the Paris Zone: Entering the French Leftspace Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Jérôme Beauchez, Djemila Zeneidi
This article presents a spatial and cultural analysis of the Zone as a space inhabited by the “dangerous classes” in 19th- and 20th-Century France. The Zone was a marginal and illegally occupied ar...
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Exhausting the Home Interior: A Perecquian Methodology for the Study of Temporary Homemaking Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Arshia Eghbali
Bringing into dialogue the common themes and approaches in the research on student homemaking, a discussion of the relevance of Georges Perec’s works to spatial research, and an experimental empiri...
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Different Patterns of the Revitalization of Collective Memory in Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Cases of Columbia Circle and the Blue House Cluster Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Yueying Chen, Shaoming Lu
Collective memory in cities reflects urban spatial alterations and historic developments. Collective memory can be preserved and reflected by revitalization projects. To build a framework and compa...
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Churches and Urban Regeneration in Postindustrial Amsterdam Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Linda van de Kamp
The central focus of this article is the interaction between religious actors and urban regeneration in the former industrial area of Amsterdam North. While there is extensive literature on the str...
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Epilogue: Spatializing Cities, Exploring Urban Religion, Re-Imagining Urbanity Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Silke Steets
As an epilogue to the essays in this special issue, the article revolves around the question of the specificity of urban religious experiences. In addressing this question, I will first elaborate o...
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Secularity and Urban Gentrification: An Spatial Analysis of Downtown Buddhist Temples in Shanghai Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Weishan Huang
This essay examines the relationship between the processes of urban change and the politically and commercially constructed nature of Buddhism since 1978 in Shanghai. After examining data from 120 ...
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Architecturations of Pentecostal Power: Contribution to a Sociology of Pentecostal Auditoriums Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Obvious Katsaura
This article examines Pentecostal architecture as an expression and apparatus of “Pentecostal power.” Referencing the “new” auditorium of the Deeper Christian Life Ministries in Gbagada, Lagos, the...
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Rights and Stones: Pentecostal Autoconstruction and Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Martijn Oosterbaan
This article discusses the growth of Pentecostal churches in favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The author pleads for a systemic inclusion of religious ideas and practices in theoretical reflection...
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Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Leilah Vevaina
Mumbai is one of the world’s megacities often depicted through its intensely crowded suburban trains and hours-long traffic jams. The city is now in the midst of a huge transport infrastructural sc...
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Urban Space, Functional Differentiation, and Conditions of Religious Place-Making in 19th-Century German and British Cities Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Uta Karstein
The article discusses the urbanization process of the 19th century against the background of the theory of functional differentiation. It is assumed that functional differentiation is an essential ...
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Making Informal Sacred Geographies: Spiritual Presence, Sensual Engagement, and Wayside Shrines in Urban India Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Ursula Rao
Inspired by recent debates in material religion, and using the example of the central Indian city of Bhopal, this article characterizes an informal Hindu religious geography that flourishes in the ...
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Infrastructuring Religion: Materiality and Meaning in Ordinary Urbanism Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Marian Burchardt
This article draws on the infrastructural turn in urban studies to explore the profane materialities that enable particular forms of urban religion. Assuming that cities are configurations of space...
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The Politics of Mapping Religion: Locating, Counting, and Categorizing Places of Worship in European Cities Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Mar Griera, Tobias Müller, Julia Martínez-Ariño
This article critically analyses the proliferation and production of what we call “religious maps” in Europe in recent years. Religious maps have emerged as a form of monitoring, describing, and re...
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Censorship Through Explanation: The Corrective Agency of Visibility in Panoramic Perspective and the Panopticon Prison Plan Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Luke Tipene
This essay argues that historical parallels exist between Australian colonial image production and early-19th-century prison design in England. It compares similarities in the compositional arrange...
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No Longer a Prison: The Logistics and Politics of Transforming a Prison as Work of Architecture Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Sepideh Karami
This article discusses the political role of architectural work and design in transforming a prison into a museum and recreational center. The text focuses on Qasr Prison, the first civil prison in...
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#Detroit Music City: Analyzing Detroit’s Musical Urban Imaginary Through a Cultural Justice Lens Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Leonieke (S.L.) Bolderman
In this article, the ways murals can become symbols of both heritage and divisive gentrification processes are analyzed in the context of the contemporary media city. Taking the case of Detroit, US...
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Practices of Care in a Multipavilion Prison: An Exploratory Study on the Role of the Built Environment Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Margo Annemans, Koen Coomans, Ann Heylighen
People’s health and well-being is known to be affected by the built environment. Since prisons are confronted with an overrepresentation of people with mental and physical health issues, we examine...
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Ethical Prison Architecture: A Systematic Literature Review of Prison Design Features Related to Wellbeing Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Kelsey V. Engstrom, Esther F. J. C. van Ginneken
The design of prisons can greatly impact the lived experience of imprisonment, yet research on the relationship between the physical prison environment and wellbeing remains underexplored. Followin...
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Why Architecture? Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Christine McCarthy
This paper is the introduction to the Space and Culture special issue “Inside inside,” which examines the persistent use of architecture as punishment. It provides an overview of the use of archite...
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How What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine: De-Coupling Design and Punishment Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Shana Agid
The notion that policing and incarceration are permanent and necessary, if in need of reform or more “humane” design, guides contemporary practices of making in a range of design fields and, increa...
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The Community as a Liminal Correctional Space Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Jordan Anderson
Throughout the Anglophone advanced liberal democracies, punishment is increasingly creeping past the limits of traditional finite sentences and moving beyond the walls of the prison. “Regulatory” mechanisms enforcing limitations on releasees’ use of space beyond the prison walls have increased, and net widening due to technological advancement has resulted in sentenced individuals being punished within
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Who Has the Right to the Coworking Space? Reframing Platformed Workspaces as Elite Territory in the Geomedia City Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Karin Fast
Current research suggests that coworking spaces (CWS) both respond to and legitimize work precarization. This is an important critique. Less acknowledged, however, is the fact that CWS also (re)produce eliteness. Thus, to the aim of offering perspectives that remain underrepresented in CWS research, I here scrutinize CWS as promotors of class privilege. I build my case on the premise that class privilege
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Measures of Restraint: The Remaking of Carceral Space in the Postwar United States Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Steven Niedbala
This article describes how architects working for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons developed a universal technical vocabulary for prison construction in the years following the end of the Second World Wa...
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The Geomediatized Geographies of Marginalized Older Digital Citizens Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Maja Klausen
In this article, I approach the Danish digitalization strategy as a Lefebvrian conceived space, focusing on how its ideology and spatial codes denote a normative vision for how citizens should and ...
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“Google Is Not a Good Neighbor”: The Google Campus Protests in Berlin Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Maren Hartmann
When Google announced, in October 2018, that it would not pursue its plan to open a Google Campus in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the local anti-gentrification protesters were triumphant. The retreat was widely seen to be the result of a 2-year-long fight between the tech company and local activist groups. Next to the usual gentrification issues, the protests had additionally addressed what Google as a company
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Bachelard, Besson and Bakhtin: A Dialogical Discourse on the Potential of Intimate Space Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-06-04 Robert Brown
Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space ponders the image of the wardrobe. Fixated by the figurative nature of its inner space, for Bachelard, the wardrobe is intimate, secret, and ordered. It is a space of protected memories, accessed more through the imagination than the everyday. Besson’s The Fifth Element opens up intimate space. Its external envelope offers no impenetrable boundary but instead a permeable
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Force Fields of Montaña Verde: Spatializing the Commons in the City-as-Oeuvre Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Hanka Otte, Louis Volont
This article assesses what a spatial expression of the commons might entail. It asks, “How is ‘common space’ produced when the initiative thereto lies at the institutional rather than at the grassroots level?” The article first proposes a dyadic understanding of common space in terms of endogenous and exogenous commoning: internal governance and external negotiation, respectively. Thereafter, Lefebvre’s
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The Gentrification of Airbnb: Closing Rent Gaps Through the Professionalization of Hosting Space and Culture (IF 0.971) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Jelke R. Bosma, Niels van Doorn
In this article, we argue that it is analytically productive to think about the professionalization of hosting on Airbnb in terms of (commercial) gentrification. More precisely, we believe that rent gap theory is helpful to advance our understanding of why and how professionalized hosting has become an increasingly salient phenomenon and for centering the active role of Airbnb as a platform operator