Full Description
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 standpoints, but which relate to the thesis of the refiguration of space as a new phase of globalization.
By adopting a spatial lens, the book offers insights into the dynamics of social order in the post-globalization era, examining how conflicts arise within space and how spatial dynamics shape social tensions. The chapters unpack the interplay between human aspirations and geographical limitations and use the concept of (re)figuration to underline the trans-scalar dimension of most social conflicts, which is massively expanded by digital mediatization, public communication and its refigured infrastructures. While emphasizing the empirical analysis of conflicts in space, the edited volume also seeks to identify general principles of the spatial dynamics of social conflicts. It is this 'spatial logic' underlying conflictual situations that the book addresses with the term 'spatial conflicts.'
This volume will be of interest to students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, geography, urban studies, communication studies, political science, and globalization and peace studies.
Contents
1. Introduction: Spatial conflicts and conflictual spaces in the age of refiguration—Current research perspectives
Hubert Knoblauch, Vivien Sommer, and Barbara Pfetsch
2. Containing or acting on conflict through space: A heuristic of conflict-space interplay
Zozan Baran and Barbara Pfetsch,
Part 1. Macro regimes and spatial conflicts
3. Regional free movement: Ongoing spatial conflicts between macroterritorial and national levels—A case study of ECOWAS, the EU, and Mercosur
Zoé Perko and Dorothea Biaback Anong,
4. Conflicts of modernities: The spaces of health care in French-speaking West African popular culture
Séverine Marguin and Daddy Dibinga
Part 2. Tensions in digital spaces
5. Borders on the internet? The RIPE debate about the internet in the wake of the war in Ukraine
Hubert Knoblauch and Sezgin Sönmez
6. From safe(r) space to safe(r) spacing: Queer spatial conflict in Cape Town and Berlin
Nicolas Zehner, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Daniel Grönefeld, and Philip Baumbach
7. Algorithmic regulation across physical and digital spaces: Analyzing Airbnb's marketplace in US and European cities over time
Stefan Kirchner and Simon Pohl
Part 3. Contentious land rights
8. Notions of land—Figurations of conflict. Spatial forms of conflicts and the making of Kaloleni and Makongeni
Makau Kitata and Jochen Kibel
9. The (re)making of conflictual spaces: New urban frontiers and infrastructure-led development in Nairobi
Alexander Kohrs, Linda Hering, and John K. Shadrack
10. Spatial tensions and conflict: Forcibly displaced people in Lagos and Amman
Qusay Amer, Rebecca Enobong Roberts, and Francesca Ceola
Part 4. Social exclusion, social inclusion, and spatial knowledge
11. Spatial conflict containment in Singapore. Pacifying conflictual spaces by (in)visibilizing them in urban infrastructure
Nina Baur and Elmar Kulke
12. Growing up (un)knowingly in a cage: Youths' conflictive spatial knowledge
Ignacio Castillo Ulloa, Juliane Heinrich, Angela Million, and Ludovica Tomarchio
13. Beyond remembrance: Spatial dynamics in commemorating racist violence in Solingen and
Rostock Kübra Gencal, Emma Brahm, and Daniel Kubiak
Part 5. Struggles over ecology and space
14. Socioecological transformation and conflict: Arenas, topics, and dimensions
Miriam Schad and Bernd Sommer
15. The spatial dimension of climate justice conflicts and solidarities: A conceptual model Daniela Stoltenberg,
Barbara Pfetsch, Zozan Baran, and Annie Waldherr
16. Conflicts along the "fresh air corridors" of Stuttgart: The figurational politics of climate adaptation
Ignacio Farías and Indrawan Prabaharyaka
