The Constitution of Space
The Structuration of Spaces Through the Simultaneity of Effect and Perception
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2397785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martina Löw (0000-0002-8123-4356, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DARMSTADT, GERMANY, -darmstadt.de, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-49 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431007085286 |
| OpenAlex | W2153743235 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 124 |
| References cited | 30 |
It has become an academic self-evidence that space can only inadequately be conceptualized as a material or earth-bound base for social processes. This could commend a theoretical view of space as the outcome of action, which brings both social production practices and bodily deployment into focus. The action-theoretical perspective allows the constitution of space to be understood as taking place in perception. Not only are things alone perceived but also the relations between objects. This article develops a space-theoretical concept according to which space is constituted through acts as the outcome of synthesis and positioning practices. This opens up a theoretical perspective defining atmospheres as an external effect, instantiated in perception, of social goods and human beings in their situated spatial order/ing. Exclusion and inclusion are accordingly comprehended in terms of perception of the attunement of places. With reference to Anthony Giddens, this article discusses how space can be understood as a duality of structural ordering and action elements
Action (physics · Attunement · Constitution · Epistemology · Perception · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Urban Planning and Governance · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology
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Back to Sociological Theory
| Unique citing works | 124 |
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| Citations per year | 7,29 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 123 |