Spatial Conflicts and Conflictual Spaces

The Dynamics of Refiguration
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-86816-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: The Refiguration of Space

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pfetsch, Barbara

Knoblauch, Hubert

Sommer, Vivien

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Hubert Knoblauch is Professor for General Sociology/Theories of Modern Society at the Technische Universität Berlin and Co-Chair of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC 1265) “Re-Figuration of Spaces” with Martina Löw. His main research areas include Sociological Theory, Sociology of Knowledge, Religion, Language, Qualitative Methods, Videography. He recently published the monograph The Communicative Construction of Reality (2020).

Vivien Sommer is a sociologist researching knowledge, practices and memory with a focus on European borders. Since 2023, she leads the Emmy Noether Research Group on socio-spatial memory at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space and is part of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC 1265) “Re-Figuration of Spaces” at Technische Universität Berlin. Her work focuses on empirically grounded theory development in the fields of Sociology of Knowledge and Space, as well as the development of innovative qualitative methods.

Barbara Pfetsch is Professor of Communication Theory and Media Effects research at Freie Universität Berlin and a principal investigator at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Her research and publications focus on comparative political communication, online communication and digital issue networks, and transnational and European public spheres.