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Streb, Christoph Klaus, and Thomas Kolnberger. "Introduction: The materiality and spatiality of death, burial and commemoration." Mortality 24, no. 2 (April 3, 2019): 117–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2019.1586662.
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Litts, Breanne K., Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai, and Whitney E. Lewis. "Examining the materiality and spatiality of design scaffolds in computational making." International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction 30 (December 2021): 100295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100295.
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Garcia, Antero. "Gaming Literacies: Spatiality, Materiality, and Analog Learning in a Digital Age." Reading Research Quarterly 55, no. 1 (May 17, 2019): 9–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rrq.260.
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Jeffrey, Alex. "Legal geography 1: Court materiality." Progress in Human Geography 43, no. 3 (December 28, 2017): 565–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132517747746.
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This report examines the spatiality of court processes, connecting interdisciplinary work that has considered the physical processes of trials with geographical work that has deepened our understanding of the substance and properties of the material world. The specific focus of this discussion is the built materiality of courts, tracing the emergence of work on the nature of trial spaces, court architecture and the arrangement of courtrooms. Rather than a review of progress in an already-defined intellectual field, I am bringing together an interdisciplinary set of works with the aim of tracing the future pathways for work on the geography of trials.
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Kenzler, Hauke. "Post-medieval burial customs in Germany – an archaeological perspective on materiality and spatiality." Mortality 24, no. 2 (March 5, 2019): 123–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2019.1585781.
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Coles, Benjamin. "The Shocking Materialities and Temporalities of Agri-capitalism." Gastronomica 16, no. 3 (2016): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2016.16.3.5.
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Contemporary food provision is largely dominated by agri-capitalism. Using the body of the chicken, the world's most pervasive source of meat protein, this paper tracks the interplay between materiality, spatiality, and temporality within agri-capitalism. It examines the myriad ways in which agri-capitalism distorts space, time, and materiality and deploys them as “fixes” to crises. It illustrates how these fixes reverberate back and forth between production and consumption to shape the spaces of alternative and mainstream food provision alike. It argues that the seemingly distinct spaces of consumption and production are in fact mutually construed and interdependent, and consequently, that shifts in consumptive practices, discourses, or temporalities and materialities cannot in themselves redress the implicit structural inequalities of agri-capitalism. This paper closes with thoughts on an insurgent food politics through which the spaces and possibilities of food can be reimagined.
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Yan, Shu-chuan. "Spatiality and materiality: the girl’s bedroom in fin-de-siècle advice literature." Interiors 11, no. 2-3 (September 2, 2021): 183–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20419112.2021.1956157.
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Chirindo, Kundai. "A (Hetero)Topology of Rhetoric and Obama’s African Dreams." Journal for the History of Rhetoric 19, no. 1 (January 2016): 50–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jhistrhetoric.19.1.0050.
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ABSTRACT The emplacements of rhetoric are manifold and the inquiries into the topologies of rhetoric are ways of understanding developments in rhetorical theory. To these ends, I contrast in this article the invocations of place in rhetorical theory old and new. In this long view, the spatiality of rhetoric appears to be multifaceted. I show that in Greco-Roman rhetorical theory, spatiality is topical, figured metaphorically and literally, and functions as a precedent condition for rhetoric. I argue that modern/postmodern theories differ from traditional theories of rhetoric not because they rely more or less on the materiality or immateriality of place, but because of their orientations to place as heterotopic, that is, as fluid and contingent. I then offer an account of how heterotopic rhetoric challenges orders of knowledge allowing for ever-new articulations through a close reading of Barack Obama’s Dreams from my Father. The heterotopology of rhetoric proposed here expands understandings of the heuristic function of place. The essay considers the implications heterotopic place holds for identity and subjectivity.
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Bjarnason, David. "Island Connections: Icelandic Spatiality in the Wake of Worldly Linkages." Island Studies Journal 5, no. 2 (2010): 217–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.24043/isj.245.
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The notions and materiality of connections, through electronic networks as well as modes of mobility, play an ever-increasing role in how we define, understand, engage and experience the world we live in and the islands we live on. This article presents an account of Icelandic encounters with technologies of telecommunication and explores how electronic connections have participated in formulating a particularly connected, island spatiality. It is argued that an island can be regarded as a kind of connected laboratory suitable for studying how associations form around technologies of connections, which can be traced through various actors. For this purpose, the historical genealogy of connections and telecommunication in Iceland is analyzed, as well as more contemporary ideas and representations of mobile phone usage and network connectivity. It is maintained that connections have fundamentally altered the spatiality as well as representations of Iceland. While still an island in a geographical sense, and in that manner remote and isolated, the social space of the island now denies such connotations in many respects, valorizing the connectivity of Iceland and its people.
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Ince Keller, Irem, Maurice Yip, and Jean Ruegg. "More-Than-Human Promise: Relationality, Materiality, and Performativity." Legalities 4, no. 1 (March 2024): 68–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/legal.2024.0065.
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By analysing the relevant case law, this article argues that the promise must be understood as a more-than-human practice rather than merely a human affair of exchanging commitments to make agreements. Promise is always rolled into, and complicated by, the heterogenous networks formed up by humans and nonhumans in the world. Within the broader scope of this special issue – to build dialogues between comparative law and legal geography – this article, by analysing the legality and spatiality of promise, unpacks spatio-legal tangles, which are dynamic, contextual, and territorial, producing knowledge about law and society. It assesses three cases of promise in different spatio-legal settings: first, a piece of legislation about seismic risk management in Türkiye; second, a judicial decision regarding land use rezoning in Hong Kong; and, third, some disputes over property rental arrangement during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong. These cases are analysed through three interrelated aspects of making sense of the social world: relationality, materiality, and performativity. Different material objects, which can help relate and unrelate actants, are embedded in the performance of the law’s territory. The identification of these three components begins with the provocative vision shared by the scholarship of both comparative law and legal geography that aims to understand how the world is ordered, as well as with the awareness of comparison and spatiality. When using these three notions, the theoretical framing is not only limited to the analysis of the promise, but it can also be extended to make sense of other aspects of law and society.
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Uslu, Gülşen Aslan. "Treading the Spiral: Intermediality, Spatiality, and Materiality in Lance Olsen’s Theories of Forgetting." Anglia 142, no. 1 (March 1, 2024): 137–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2024-0010.
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Abstract In his 2014 intermedial word-image novel Theories of Forgetting, Lance Olsen focuses on human life’s transience, impermanence, and fragility through his major characters, Alana and Hugh, and their children, who read their parents’ diaries. The ideas about the fleeting nature of human lives are presented through intermedial configurations in the novel which are rendered through experimental usage of the topography of the page, hypertextual design, and inclusion of photographs and various visual media which altogether redefine the spatiality and materiality of the novel. The initial construction of the spatial form in the work comes from postmodernist narrative elements. Spatiality and space gain further significance in the novel’s fictional world, or narrative space, with Robert Smithson’s earthwork Spiral Jetty, which aims to show change, regression, and disintegration in nature as well as being the main inspiration in the ekphrastic ventures of the novel. Alana, one of the characters, works on a short documentary film on Spiral Jetty, leading her to think and question time and space and how space is subject to change with time. Hugh, another character, is a traveler in distant places like Europe, the Middle East, and Jordan, all of which turn into metaphors that help to shape the narrative and represent the mental spaces of its characters. Besides these stories on and about space, the print book also becomes a site rich with photographs, visual media, and verbal text. Through intermediality, the novel portrays a complex depiction of space at structural, narrative, and material levels. Such a presentation of the stories with postmodernist elements and hypertext and a critical sensibility of the materiality of the print medium turn the work into an art object to be viewed and read.1
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Fabian, Louise. "Spatiale forklaringer – Da den geografiske tænkning kom på den humanvidenskabelige dagsorden." Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, no. 57 (March 9, 2018): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/sl.v0i57.104660.
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The article examines the emergence and content of the ongoing interdisciplinary Spatial Turn within the humanistic and social sciences. It is first shown how a seriesof scholars from cultural geography such as Henri Lefebvre, Doreen Massey and Edward W. Soja have recently reinterpreted the social and political significance of spatiality, and argued that space must be conceived as something dynamic, relational, and socially constructed. It is then investigated how phenomenology contributes theoretical and methodological insights to the field of spatial analysis. Finally the paper reflects on what characterizes an analytical and methodological turn, and on how the spatial turn is connected to the related turns towards materiality and practice.
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Meyer, Morgan, and Kate Woodthorpe. "The Material Presence of Absence: A Dialogue between Museums and Cemeteries." Sociological Research Online 13, no. 5 (September 2008): 127–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.1780.
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This is an exploratory paper that aims to stimulate a dialogue between those interested in two particular spaces in society: the museum and the cemetery. Using empirical evidence from two research projects, the paper considers similarities and differences between the two sites, which are further explored through theoretical ideas about the social life of things and the agency of absence. Examining the materiality of these spaces, the paper addresses the role of objects in these two spaces and their respective associations with death, either through the dead themselves or the representation of those who have once lived. In particular, it explores the ‘presence of absence’ through three key points: its spatiality, its materiality, and its agency. Museums and cemeteries are, in this sense, directly comparable, as both spaces are shaped by and built upon the practice of making the absent present. Called ‘heterotopic’ by Foucault (1986) in that they are layered with multiple meanings, this paper will also argue for an understanding of museums and cemeteries as being able to transcend absence. Underpinning this is the belief that there remains much scope for future connections to be made between these two sites, theoretically, politically and practically.
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McCamley, Claire, and Leigh Morland. "Lone not lonely: Conceptualising the lone consumer servicescape through speciality coffee." Marketing Theory 21, no. 3 (May 20, 2021): 371–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14705931211017184.
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This article explores the lone consumer experience in the context of speciality coffee, resulting in the conceptualisation of the lone consumer servicescape. The lone consumer is conceptualised as a consumption collective, with its own innate characteristics, behaviours and requirements that can be viewed through physical, social and symbolic aspects of servicescape. Through utilising freewriting, the research captures self-reported experiences of lone consumers of speciality coffee. Data derived from 54 respondents is analysed thematically to determine the dimensions of lone consumption. Findings reveal a lone consumption servicescape that combines spatiality, materiality and aesthetic, symbolic discourse and parasocial interactions, mediated by the lone consumer’s self-reflection. Lone consumption, in this context, is acknowledged as a sought after and fulfilling experience but one which requires both a conducive environment and self-awareness to utilise it.
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Bednorz, Magdalena. "Heroine’s journey to love: Spatial rhetoric in romantic subplots in BioWare’s fantasy RPGs." Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication 29, no. 38 (June 15, 2021): 191–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/i.2021.38.12.
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This article explores the potential of digital games to encode references encompassing specific cultural ideas of romantic love within their spatial structures, thus helping guide the player’s interpretation of romance as they interact with and move through those spaces. It undertakes an analysis of romantic subplots in BioWare’s fantasy role-playing games, specifically those which reappropriate the courtly love trope, and discusses elements of that remediation which rely heavily on spatial metaphors and structures, including the shared experience of heroic journey, the role of questing for the development of romance, and spatial positioning of lovers on the game map. Through its analysis, the article explores how digital games can employ spatial rhetoric while approaching topics of love, and how they are equipped to represent the materiality and spatiality of love and love narratives.
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Knezevich, Ruth. "Margins and Modernity: A Geocritical Approach to Anna Seward's Llangollen Vale." Romanticism 25, no. 1 (April 2019): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0402.
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The genre of annotated verse represents an under-explored form of transporting romanticism. In annotated, locodescriptive poems like those in Anna Seward's Llangollen Vale, readers are invited to read not only the spatiality of the landscapes depicted in the verse but also the landscape of the page itself. Seward's poems, with their focus on understanding geographical, political, and historical spaces both real and imaginary, provide geocritical insight into poetic productions of the early Romantic era. Likewise, geocriticism offers a fresh and useful – even necessary – analytic approach to such poems. I adopt Anna Seward as a case study in annotated verse and argue that attending to the materiality and paratextuality of her work allows us to access the complexities of her poetry and prose as well as her position within the wider framework of transporting Romanticism.
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SOUSA, Adria De Lima, Charlene Fernanda THUROW, Gabriela RODRIGUES, and Daniela Ribeiro SCHNEIDER. "Diálogos da Psicologia Existencialista com o Conceito de Território." PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES - Revista da Abordagem Gestáltica 26, no. 3 (2020): 339–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.18065/2020v26n3.9.
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Jean-Paul Sartre, based on the phenomenological method and existentialist philosophy, described human reality as freedom in situation, understood in the indissoluble unity between itself and itself, that is, between freedom and facticity. Existence of the subject is not given abstractly, it occurs in a concrete space, circumscribed in materiality and acquires meaning in the light of the project of being. In defining the concept of situation, Sartre uses the notions of "my place" and "my surroundings", portraying materiality as a boundary condition of freedom. From this notion of spatiality, the present work aims to establish relations between the Sartrian concept of situation, as defined in Being and Nothingness, and the concept of territory used in several areas of knowledge that approach the relation between person and environment, such as geography, anthropology, ethology, psychology and other areas of health. The multiple possibilities of interdisciplinary interlocution of the notion of territory result from the dynamics of the concept, which is not limited to the physical environment, but brings together social and symbolic aspects in an integrated and dialectical way. Discussing the approximations between the concepts of territory, territoriality and situation contribute to the interdisciplinarity of the different areas that use them in professional practice
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Duangwises, Narupon. "Sexy Jaosue: Consuming Hindu Deities and Homoerotic Materiality in Thailand." Asia Social Issues 17, no. 4 (December 1, 2023): e263681. http://dx.doi.org/10.48048/asi.2024.263681.
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In this article, I describe the material and objectified conditions that occur with Jaosue Watcharakorn’s complex operations that take Ganesha’s divine sanctity in Hinduism to reconstruct a sexy and attractive masculine body that attracts gay people. I found that religious spatiality and temporality were not separate from secular matters, but they broke the disciplined order and created the unconventional form of embodiment. Jaosue’s self-manifestation is conducted upon the interacted complexity of religious objects, sexual desire, and consumption of luxury goods. However, the study of materiality must also be considered in the context of the relational powers arising in the operations of various objects organized by capitalist commoditization. I understand daily material practices as a reflection of Thai society, where the disadvantaged are struggling to achieve financial success under the inefficiency of the Thai government. Only people with strong power networks can access opportunities and success within such struggles. Jaosue’s story indicates that to make himself a possible material entity he must constantly strive and attempt to gain sources of power.
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Wanka, Anna. "My Home is My Castle/My Home is My Prison." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 32, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 60–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2023.320105.
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Abstract This article focuses on the co-constitution of the home and age(ing) in the retirement transition, that is, how the experiences of home change in the transition from work to retirement, and how the experiences of retiring change with transformations of the home. The article first outlines current literature on transitions in later life and the home. Subsequently, it presents data from the project ‘Doing Retiring’ along three lines of inquiry: meanings, practices and negotiations of and within the home, and how they change across the retirement transition. Finally, it discusses implications of understanding the transition from work to retirement and the home as not merely related, but co-constitutive. It concludes by suggesting a ‘doing’ approach to life course transitions which focuses on socio-material practices and thus offers a prominent place in transition research to spatiality, materiality and processuality.
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Fedorenko, Olga. "Taejabo: Remediations and Materiality of South Korean Wall Posters." Journal of Korean Studies 27, no. 2 (October 1, 2022): 353–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07311613-9859876.
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Abstract An iconic medium of underground antiauthoritarian student activism in the 1980s, taejabo, or large “big-character” paper posters, has experienced a revival in postmillennial South Korea. Despite democratization and the availability of numerous online platforms, taejabo remains an important low-tech medium for students’ expression on matters of local, national, and international significance. This article explores taejabo’s transformations—from flourishing as an analogue counter-establishment medium in the 1980s, to experimental digital adaptations and the medium’s decline in the 1990s, to taejabo’s comeback in the 2010s as a postdigital medium. Drawing on scholarship on remediation, media materiality, and postdigitality, this article argues that taejabo’s abiding relevance and coherent identity have been anchored in its ontology as publicly displayed large sheets of inscribed paper, and in its material performativity. In particular, taejabo’s spatiality enables it to not simply represent different ideas but emplace them, literally confronting onlookers and materially transforming campuses into places of contestation. Contemporary taejabo’s intermediality between paper and digital illustrates how online media, rather than being disruptive, are incorporated into established media practices.
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Andriamahefazafy, Mialy, and Christian A. Kull. "Materializing the blue economy: tuna fisheries and the theory of access in the Western Indian Ocean." Journal of Political Ecology 26, no. 1 (July 25, 2019): 403. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v26i1.23040.
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<p>Many African countries are progressively embracing the blue economy. African islands of the western Indian Ocean, however, have been involved in it for more than twenty years through the exploitation of their 'blue gold': tuna. In this article, we use Ribot and Peluso's (2003) "theory of access" to map the different ways actors access tuna under diverse socio-economic contexts and how power relations are created through different mechanisms of access. We show that rights-based mechanisms such as fishing access agreements are highly questionable for their fairness and sustainability but bring benefits such as funding for fisheries-related infrastructures and projects. We also show that access to the resource is dependent on knowledge held by fishers, on technological advances as well as on diverse labor relations. These mechanisms significantly impact the quantity of fish that can be accessed by artisanal versus industrial market sectors, and generate narratives of unequal access to tuna. Furthermore, we take into consideration the materiality of tuna as a highly mobile resource in a space of fluid boundaries, to show how the fish can be an actant in shaping access but also how fishing practices can produce new materialities. Based on the above evidence, we propose an enhancement of the theory of access to consider the role of materiality of the resources and the sea. We conclude that to ensure that tuna fisheries continue to contribute to the blue economy of African islands, stakeholders need to balance between the diverse benefits produced by the fisheries and the uneven power relations that can arise, and to integrate the impact of a material sea and fish in this reflection. </p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: fishers, knowledge, materiality, power relations, spatiality of the sea, technology, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles</p>
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Romanillos, José Luis. "Geography, Death, and Finitude." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 43, no. 11 (November 2011): 2533–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a4474.
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Despite growing interest in the geographies of death, loss, and remembrance, comparatively little geographical research has been devoted either to the historical and cultural practices of death, or to an adequate conceptualisation of finitude. Responding to these absences, in this paper I argue for the importance of the notion of finitude within the history and philosophy of geographical thought. Situating finitude initially in the context of the work of Torsten Hägerstrand and Richard Hartshorne, the notion is argued to be both productive of a geographical ethics, and as epistemologically constitutive of phenomenological apprehensions of ‘earth’ and ‘world’. In order to better grasp the sense and genealogy of finitude, I turn to the work of Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and Georges Bataille. These authors are drawn upon precisely because their writings present powerful conceptual frameworks which demonstrate the intimate relations between spatiality, death, and finitude. At the same time, their writings are critically interrogated in the light of perhaps the most important aspect of the conceptual history of finitude: the way in which it has been articulated as a site of anthropocentric distinction. I argue for a critical deconstruction of this anthropocentric basis to finitude; a deconstruction which raises a series of profound questions over the ethics, normativities, and understandings of responsibility shaping contemporary ethical geographies of the human and nonhuman. In so doing, I demonstrate the geographical importance of the notion of finitude for a variety of arenas of debate which include: phenomenological understandings of spatiality; the biopolitical boundaries drawn between human and animal; and contemporary theorisations of corporeality, materiality, and hospitality.
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van den Heever, Gerhard. "Introduction: Paul, Founder of Churches. Cult Foundations and the Comparative Study of Cult Origins." Religion & Theology 20, no. 3-4 (April 2, 2014): 259–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15743012-12341262.
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AbstractIn this introduction to the discussion on James C. Hanges,Paul, Founder of Churches, the significance of the comparative work on the cult founder-figure and typology of cult foundations is discussed. The essay argues that this serves to ground any interpretation of the cult founding work of the apostle Paul in an understanding of the materiality of religion. This gives impetus to a more concrete conceptualisation of Christian origins. Further reflection on this comparative enterprise is offered by means of three discussion foci, namely Discourse, imperial context, spatiality; Diaspora religion; and New Religious Movements. It is argued that the pervasiveness of imperial discourse and its spatial encoding allows us to see Paul’s cult foundations as sites of imperial resistance. Diasporas and diasporic religions provide key illuminations for understanding the broader context of the foundations of cult groups by Paul. Study of new religious movements will also aid in concrete descriptions and analysis of the making of early Christian groups and their organisation.
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Collins, Rebecca. "Aural Spatiality and Sonic Materiality: Attending to the Space of Sound in Performances by Ivo Dimchev and Alma Söderberg." Contemporary Theatre Review 28, no. 2 (April 3, 2018): 165–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2017.1412952.
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Marie Raahauge, Kirsten. "Ved vejen – i komplekset. Om det globale, det lokale og det materielle." Dansk Sociologi 18, no. 4 (November 3, 2007): 31–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v18i4.2304.
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Under et antropologisk feltarbejde i to danske boligkvarterer med fokus på materialitet, spatialitet og virtualitet blev et andet tema uomgængeligt: naboer. De to kvarterer befinder sig i to forskellige danske provinsbyer, hvor de omtales som velhaverkvarterer. Inden for de sidste ti år er beboerne blevet stadigt mere sociale, naboer er blevet til venner og naboskab til fællesskab; i nogle sammenhænge kan kvartererne betragtes som usynligt gatede communities. Samtidig er der sket væsentlige ændringer, hvad angår materialitet. Åbenhed og transparens er blevet en vigtig kvalitet ved husene: der er tendens til større vinduer, færre vægge og større rum, som er både poly-funktionelle og poly-sociale. Desuden har virtuelle strømme en stor betydning i hverdagen, gennem computer, tv og telefon. Artiklen undersøger relationer mellem materialitet og sociale relationer og argumenterer for, at de to er forbundne. Desuden diskuterer artiklen, hvorvidt tendensen til usynligt gatede communities er en følge af globale strømme eller et bolværk imod dem og konkluderer, at fænomenet er et resultat af begge processer.
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Kirsten Marie Raahauge: At the Street – in the Complex. About the Global, the Local and the Material
While conducting anthropological fieldwork in two neighbourhoods about materiality, spatiality and virtual space, another important topic surfaced: the importance of neighbours. Both neighbourhoods are well off; they are located in two different Danish provincial towns. Within the last 10 years the people living here have become sociable, neighbours have become friends, and neighbourhoods have become communities, invisibly gated communities. Simultaneously openness and transparency have become important themes concerning the house; there is a tendency towards large windows, few inner walls, and large rooms, which are both poly-functional and poly-social. Furthermore the openness of the house is related to virtual flows from computers, telephones, and televisions. This article explores some of the relationships between materiality and social relations arguing that the two are interconnected. The article also discusses the extent to which the tendency towards invisibly gated communities is part of flows of globalisation or rather is a safeguard against them, arguing that the phenomenon can be seen as a result of both of the processes.
Key words: Housing, anthropology, materiality, virtuality, space, community.
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Harutyunyan, Angela. "Three sequences of site-writing." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 4, no. 2 (2012): 212–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1202212h.
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The article is comprised of three exercises of "site writing" interrupted by theoretical and methodological intermissions. The sequences take the reader to a topographical and exegetical journey into various images, memory traces and narratives that treat reality as raw material for dreaming. Adopting architectural historian Jane Rendell's critical framework of site writing, the article aims at radical spatialization of the sites through which narratives emerge, memories are revisited and possibilities for the future are suggested. Site writing is not writing about spaces, but writing spaces, engaging the materiality of the images and the phenomenological encounters with them through spatiality and positioning of the images. Thus, images become sites through which the narrative unfolds. The image-sites that form the three key sequences include the juxtaposition of two towns-Kars and Giumryin Turkey and in Armenia respectively in a way that the images of the townscapes neither comment, nor repeat, but double each other; a journey through Los Angeles' Westin Bonaventure hotel and its relationship to the body and the landscape; and a reading of the latent possibilities of the material in artist Kasper Kovitz's landscape paintings and installations.
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Dünckmann, Florian. "Nur für Schwindelfreie? Eine Geographie politischer Praktiken nach Hannah Arendt." Geographica Helvetica 75, no. 2 (May 15, 2020): 81–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-81-2020.
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Abstract. Times of crisis often call the legitimacy of existing social orders into question. These practices of dispute and debate that question, challenge, or affirm the rules that govern our social life are what constitutes the realm of the political. This article fathoms the potential of a Political Geography that makes political practices its main point of interest. Arendt's political philosophy provides the foundation for a geography of political practices that asks about (a) the way in which the possibility and necessity of the political is tied to the spatiality of our human condition, (b) the relation of political practices to spatial structures and their production of particular places, spaces and scales, and (c) the role which materiality plays in stabilizing, constraining and shaping political practices. Combining insights from Arendt's concept of political action with recent ideas of practice theories, a definition of political practices that relies on three characteristics – reflexivity, perspectivity, and expressivity – is introduced. I will argue that these metapragmatic practices, although they distinguish themselves from pragmatic practices, nevertheless, always remain embedded in and related to the web of our everyday doings.
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Milovanović, Marija. "Zlatko Paković's Vox Dei – Civil Disobedience as an Embodied Text: The Impact of Different Types of Spaciality on Semioticity of a Performance." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, no. 19 (September 15, 2019): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i19.317.
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This paper deals with the corporeality of a performance and its place in the process of the emergence of meaning, following a case study of a Serbian theatrical piece Vox Dei – Civil Disobedience. Performance is constituted by bodies brought together by a certain purpose and temporal and spatial coordinates, and it is more and more often now decoded by the feedback loop performers and participants form in specific kinds of spatiality. Artistic corporeality defies objectivization, therefore the relational aesthetics is needed instead of an idealistic one to investigate the materiality of these performances. Using this theoretical framework, the analysis of the two different performances of the same dramatic text from the recent Serbian political theater production will tend to examine the nature of political potential of bodily co-presence in artistically and socially different environments and its implications for the semioticity of the given embodied text. Article received: April 5 2019; Article accepted: June 10, 2019; Published online: September 2019; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Milovanović, Marija. "Zlatko Pakovicćs Vox Dei – Civil Disobedience as an Embodied Text: The Impact of Different Types of Spaciality on Semioticity of a Performance." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 19 (2019): 127-138. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i19.317
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Paramita, Kristanti Dewi, Paramita Atmodiwirjo, and Soranart Sinuraibhan. "Learning from Contextual Material Practices in Architecture: Exploring Nature-Based Materials in Indonesia and Thailand." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1098, no. 1 (October 1, 2022): 012040. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1098/1/012040.
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Abstract This paper outlines pedagogical strategies in architectural design studio to construct awareness of local material practices towards architecture which rooted in its environmental context. Current architectural discourse perceives the notion of material as something separate from its environmental context. Through a joint design workshop conducted between Universitas Indonesia and Kasetsart University, this paper explores existing material practices happening in the local context of Indonesia and Thailand and how it informs material-driven architectural programming. In a group, students were tasked to reconstruct their understanding of materiality, and develop collections of material practices from both countries which revealed various local knowledge, spatiality, and environmental understanding. The workshop then demonstrates important lessons in the ways material triggers programmatic relation between architecture and its surrounding environment. Among these relations are shown in the way nature-driven community events triggers specific material craftsmanship, the connection between material utilisation in the community’s spaces and natural cycles of seasons, and the interdependence between material practices and different geographical positions. Strategies in reconstructing the material knowledge towards material-based programming cross-culturally enables students to reflect on the unique material possibilities, as well as build awareness of local community strategies toward sustainable and material-driven architecture.
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Ryzhenkov, Vladislav E. "Сonceptualization of chaos in WEB 2.0 and the chaotic subject of the Web." Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy 22, no. 4 (December 15, 2022): 403–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1819-7671-2022-22-4-403-407.
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Introduction. The article considers the theme of chaos, traditional for philosophy, in the perspective of materiality and spatiality, associated with manifestations of WEB 2.0: the stages of development of the global Web, where interactive content and content from the network users themselves prevail. Theoretical analysis. Here, an attempt is made to comprehend the question of chaos, using methods and models adequate for the digital sphere, as well as thematizing the concept of cyberchaos in order to answer the question of its relevance for modern Internet research. Understanding Internet subject, cyberchaos and the Internet as a chaotic system at the stage of WEB 2.0, where disorder and over-intensity of content predominate, shows it to be both a creative beginning and a method of catastrophic influence on the world, emerging from digital, but at the same time available for control and suppression. Conclusion. The current consideration makes it possible to take into account the scale of Deleuzian nomadology in the WEB 2.0 space. Its result is a series of proposals for the conceptualization of chaos and segments of modern life that relate to the Internet and WEB 2.0: social network subjectivity, information chaos and instant messengers as a driver of chaotic socio-political research.
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Dzwonkowska, Paulina. "Photography and sculpture:The multifaceted relation of sculpture to photography and new media in the light of the evolving concept of sculpture." Journal of Education Culture and Society 1, no. 1 (January 17, 2020): 26–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20101.26.36.
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The relationship between photography and sculpture, unlike the dialogue between the latter and painting, was long treated as a peripheral issue. Yet as early as the mid-20th century photography began to show potential that sculpture seemed to be lack. Aware of a large degree of overlap between the two forms of artistic expression, (e.g. with respect to materiality, spatiality, or accentuating frozen gestures) sculptors did not leave sculpture for photography, but attempted to create works that were interdisciplinary in structure. The rise of interest in photography displayed by Polish sculptors was closely connected with the evolution of the concept of sculpture. In the mid-20th century artists creating traditional sculptures (understood as a solid or as a visually rendered spatial form) began to experiment and cross the boundaries of well-established artistic tradition. The changes introduced enabled sculptors to interweave their field with other artistic disciplines, especially photography, even more closely. More and more frequently, sculpture started to establish multi-faceted relations with the new medium. At the beginning the potential of photography as a documentation tool was exploited. Then sculptors began to appreciate photography’s core values, using it to capture and preserve a given moment in time. Finally, they applied it in works that can be classified as close to hyperrealism. The employment of still newer materials and tools made the link between sculpture and photography inextricable, as can be shown through works of Polish artists.
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Begum, Salma, Jinat Hossain, and Jeroen Stevens. "Gender and Public Space: Mapping Palimpsests of Art, Design, and Agency in Shahbag, Dhaka." Social Inclusion 9, no. 4 (November 30, 2021): 143–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i4.4368.
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Public space is an essential social infrastructure for the continuous negotiation of city life and democracy because it offers (ideally) an interactive platform for people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds and the forms of public life they cherish. This contribution inquires how public space’s design and materiality play a fundamental role in popular struggles for social justice. By focusing on the differentiated access of women to public space, the role of gender in its design, and appropriation through a feminist intersectionality lens, this article aims to understand better the complex interplay between urban space and its non‐human material agency vis‐à‐vis citizen mobilizations, movements, and socially engaged art interventions. Drawing from extensive participant observation and spatial analysis, the exemplary public space of Shahbag Chattwar (a public square/plaza) will shed light on the “gendered spatiality” of pivotal popular mobilizations and reclamations from the historical momentum of the 1952 language movement, over the 2013 contemporary Shahbag protests, and to the 2020 anti‐metro rail protests at the Dhaka University campus. Analyzing urban space as a “palimpsest,” this research reflects on both historic and ongoing scenarios of popular protests as they repeatedly occupy public space and leave spatial traces through spatial design and art. In sum, the article seeks to gain insight into public space as a principal site of contestation and negotiation of juxtaposed layers of gendered dynamics, civil rights, secularism, and fundamentalism.
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Seymour, Kristy, and Patricia Wise. "Circus Training for Autistic Children: Difference, Creativity, and Community." New Theatre Quarterly 33, no. 1 (January 10, 2017): 78–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x16000658.
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Circus training can benefit children diagnosed on the autistic spectrum and their families. In 2010, as Head Trainer at Flipside Circus in Brisbane, Kristy Seymour developed a method for using circus as a therapeutic tool for children with autism. In this article, she and Patricia Wise work between experiential and theoretical positions to explore how circus can open up a new world to such children, enabling them to take risks physically and emotionally, and to stretch the capacities of their bodies in an environment that enriches their social development. Seymour and Wise deploy the idea of ‘chaosmos’ from Deleuze and Guattari, Pope, and others to argue that, counter-intuitively, children with autism benefit from the environment of creative chaos that attends circus. Through Agamben's work on being and singularity they discuss how circus values difference and inclusivity, building community in ways also captured by Probyn's notion of ‘outside belonging’. Kristy Seymour has worked for over sixteen years in contemporary circus as an aerialist, trainer, artistic director, creative producer, and choreographer. She has a significant profile in the youth circus sector, and is completing doctoral research on Australian contemporary circus in Griffith University's School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. An Associate Professor in the same School, Patricia Wise is a cultural theorist whose publications range over cultural policy and urban studies, inflected by interests in spatiality, materiality and gender. This article reflects a parallel concern with cultural practices in communities of difference, as does a recent co-publication on the value of participatory music for the welbeing of detained asylum seekers.
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McCumber, John. "A Question of Origin: Hegel's Privileging of Spoken Over Written Language." Hegel Bulletin 24, no. 1-2 (2003): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263523200001804.
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In ‘Le puits et la pyramide’, Jacques Derrida critiques the way in which Hegel privileges speech over writing at Encyclopedia §459. He traces that privileging back to Hegel's teleologically motivated view of time as the sublation of space, which he takes in turn to be motivated by Hegel's concern, as a metaphysical thinker, for validating and securing the philosophical dream of “full presence”. This, on Hegelian terms, involves subjecting the “materiality” of space to the “ideality” of time.Perhaps surprisingly, Hegel himself openly concedes Derrida's first two points. By limiting his discussion of language in the Encyclopedia to consideration of its function as a vehicle for the expression of representations, Hegel requires himself to discuss the relative merits of spoken and written utterances, an issue which he then argues out in favour of the former. Within the written domain, alphabetic and hieroglyphic writing must also be compared, and it is hardly astonishing that Hegel should view the key contrast between the two as that of the temporality inherent in alphabetic speech, which captures sound, as opposed to the spatiality of hieroglyphics, which exist only as inscriptions.Hegel's privileging of speech over writing is thus no mere slip; it is a whole set of consciously elaborated arguments, undertaken for specifically stated reasons. This casts doubt on the third of Derrida's points above: is Derrida mistaking the purpose of a specific discussion for the motivating force of teleology in general? Is Hegel's openly conceded privileging of spoken over written language justified by something other than a teleology dictated by an unexamined metaphysical preference for “full presence”?
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Banaszkiewicz, Karina. "Praktykować media/Praktykować siebie… O doświadczaniu przestrzeni późnej nowoczesności." Załącznik Kulturoznawczy, no. 8 (2021): 11–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/zk.2021.8.01.
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In advanced globalization, the digital code, computer, and Internet become tools of cultural change. 2-3-4.0 generation media produce images, artificial events, objects, as well as methods of vision prevailing in design, design processes, and communication. The number of visibility types offered to users, results in media matrices becoming regimes of (for) the eye, of (for) a bodily experience. It also shapes a sense of reality by means of media space (TV stream, cyberspace) and spaces inscribed in media forms (simulations, hybrids, onto-ontological topias). Two issues seem of particular relevance here. Questions about access to reality offered by ‘images’ (satellites, HDMI helmets, combat glasses, etc.) and possibilities of seeing the world from behind the visual media matrices. Media, multi-media communication platforms distribute not only schemes of viewing, but also the right to look (extranet, friends lists, access to archives and libraries, consumer profiles collected by Google, MS, etc.). The excess of artificial forms and spaces, on the other hand, directs attention to participation and participants of culture: individuals and communities (real, imagined, virtual). Their activities in cyberspace, including identity and identity practices, should be the focus of interest. The author of the text reflects upon identity practices of the Praktykować media/Praktykować siebie individual, that is the individual’s participation in culture through the prism of immaterial materiality, self-care, and the need for bonds and integration with the Others. She discusses techniques of advanced audio-vision (their matrices and spatiality), as well as creation of subjective coherence negotiated with others in terms of individual – group (conventional) – universal content (e.g. humanity). Identity practices are located within the framework of data flows and transmissions, information bubbles, heterotopia, and identities of legitimization, resistance, and design implemented there. The author of the text also perceives identity from the perspective of a person and a mask, of users’ tactics articulating their presence in cyber-virtual communities (e.g. avatars, nicks, multiple identities), as well as in the perspective of data visualization: user profiles, metric identifiers, files, selection algorithms, search history, archives of published photos…, in other words – institutional (cyber)surveillance strategies.
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Moreno Moreno, María Pura. "Menos yo, más otros. A propósito de diseñar el desorden. Experimentos y disrupciones en la ciudad, de Pablo Sendra y Richard Sennett." Cuadernos de Proyectos Arquitectónicos, no. 11 (December 27, 2021): 80–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.20868/cpa.2021.11.4825.
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ResumenEn el libro Construir y habitar. Una ética para la ciudad (2019) Richard Sennet relataba cómo conversando sobre la ciudad con Jane Jacobs, la activista norteamericana le planteó la sugerente cuestión “¿…entonces tú qué harías?”. Un interrogante referido a plantear cómo coordinar los conceptos diferenciados de ville, entendida como la materialidad física de lo urbano, y el de cité relativo a las percepciones, comportamientos y creencias de la población habitante. La cuestión pretendía indagar sobre las posibilidades de pautar cuál era la relación directa entre la forma material del entorno urbano y los aspectos relativos a lo social -a la poliscomo ciudadanía, justicia, cohesión, o buen habitar. Y también sobre qué planteamientos asumir en términos de espacialidad, materialidad, trazados o infraestructura para modelar una ville capaz de producir una mejor cité. Richard Sennett, en este nuevo texto, pretende dar respuestas a Jane Jacobs gracias a la cooperación de las disciplinas de la arquitectura y el urbanismo expuestas por el investigador Pablo Sendra. Una aportación que complementa aspectos sociológicos y políticos con el pragmatismo de exponer recursos concretos del ámbito del proyecto urbano; tales como infraestructuras abiertas y flexibles capaces de dar una solución a esa deseada sinergia entre villey cité. La sincronía del discurso teórico y la realidad material del proyecto, junto a su concreción en experimentos urbanos analizados, son los dos valores más interesantes y destacables del libro. El aterrizaje al grafismo real y pragmático de un plano, asociado a especificar qué sucede en capas invisibles como el debajo y el encima de la cota cero en la sección del territorio de la ciudad, y cuales son sus flujos, merecen una atenta lectura. E invitan a investigar a través de la estrecha colaboración entre disciplinas -antropología, sociología, geografía, etc.-difíciles de obviar en cualquier proyecto urbano.AbstractIn the book Building and Dwelling. Ethics for the City (2019), Richard Sennett recounted how, when talking about the city with Jane Jacobs, the influential North American journalist, author, theorist, and activist posed the suggestive question: “So what would you do?”. A question aimed at making one think about how to coordinate the different concepts of the ville, understood as the physical materiality of what is urban, and the cité, what we take to be the perceptions, behaviors, and beliefs of urban inhabitants. The question sought to investigate the possibilities of establishing the direct relationship between the material form of the urban environment and the aspects related to the social—to the polis, such as citizenship, justice, cohesion, or living well. Besides this, it also served to consider what approaches to take in terms of spatiality, materiality, layouts, or infrastructure and thus model an urban environment capable of producing a better cité. Richard Sennett, in this new text, attempts to offer answers to Jacobs’ question, with the help to the cooperation between the disciplines of architecture and urban planning, presented by researcher Pablo Sendra. A contribution that complements sociological and political dimensions with the pragmatism of revealing particular resources from urban planning, such as open and flexible infrastructures, capable of providing a solution to this desired synergy between ville and cité. The synchronicity of the theoretical discourse and the project’s material reality, together with its materialization in the urban experiments analyzed, are the two most interesting and remarkable values of the book. The real and pragmatic graphic character of a plan, associated with specifying what happens in invisible layers, such as those below and above level zero in the section of the city’s territory, and how they flow, deserve a careful reading. The ideas invite you to investigate in close collaboration with disciplines such as anthropology or sociology, which should not be ignored in any urban project.
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Blok, Anders. "Et nyt klima for sociologien? Om socialteoretiske nybrud i økologiseringens tidsalder." Dansk Sociologi 23, no. 1 (March 22, 2012): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v23i1.4036.
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De globale klimaforandringers nye epokale bekymringer udfordrer sociologisk vanetænkning og inviterer til forstærket socialteoretisk engagement. Denne artikel søger at give et selektivt overblik over de måder, hvorpå den sociologiske fagdisciplin gør klimaproblematikken til genstand for teoretisk og empirisk forskning; samt at give et programmatisk og fremadrettet bud på dette arbejdes væsentligste socialteoretiske nybrud. Historisk lokaliseres disse spor i miljøsociologien, og artiklen giver et kort oprids af dette sub-felts vigtigste forskningsprogrammer. Hernæst analyseres det, hvordan ”klima” nutidigt mobiliseres som markør for bredere kulturelle transformationer i en række ambitiøse samtidsdiagnostiske projekter. Fokus lægges her på de vidt forskellige, men hver især vidtrækkende, teoriansatser hos Ulrich Beck, John Urry, Slavoj Žižek og Bruno Latour. Mod slutningen af artiklen udpeges fem social-ontologiske akser, langs hvilke klimaforandringerne inviterer til fornyet sociologisk fantasi og fremtidige empiriske studier: Rumlighed (globalitet); tidslighed (fremtidighed); materialitet (økologi); epistemisk grænsedragning (transdisciplinaritet); og offentlighedsformer (klimatisk medborgerskab). Klimaforandringer, konkluderes det håbefuldt, kan vise sig at bidrage ”positivt” til sociologien, som katalysator for en genopfindelse af disciplinen i en kosmopolitan, mere-end-social verden.
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Anders Blok: A New Climate for Sociology? On Social-Theo-retical Ventures in the Age of Ecology
The epochal concerns of global climate change challenge sociological habits of thought and call for a strengthened social-theoretical engagement. This article seeks to provide a selective overview of how the discipline of sociology turns climate issues into theoretical and empirical research; and it also attempts to offer a programmatic and future-oriented assessment of the main social-theo-retical ruptures conjured in this work. In historical terms, these lines of engagement are located in environmental sociology, and the article provides a brief review of the main research programmes of this sub-field. It then analyzes how ”the climate” is presently deployed as marker of wider cultural transformation in a series of ambitious projects of diagnosing the present. It focuses on the wide-ranging, but extensively different, theoretical assertions of Ulrich Beck, John Urry, Slavoj Žižek and Bruno Latour. In the latter part of the article, five socio-ontological axes are pinpointed, along which climate change invite renewed forms of sociological imagination and future empirical research: spatiality (globality); temporality (futurity); materiality (ecology); epistemic boundary-work (trans-disciplinarity); and public-ness (climatic citizenship). In a hopeful vein, the article concludes that climate change may contribute ”positively” to sociology, by catalyzing the reinvention of the discipline in a cosmopolitan, more-than-social world.
Key words: Global climate change, environmental sociology, diagnosis of the present, ecologization, cosmopolitization, social-theoretical ruptures.
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Jensen, Tina Gudrun. "Extensions: The Embodiment, Spatiality, Materiality, and Sociality of Neighboring in Danish Public Housing." Space and Culture, January 2, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/12063312231220265.
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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 relations constitute a practical embodied experience of the neighborhood. The article describes the condition of dwelling related to home as bestowing a certain embodied dimension to neighborhood relations. Furthermore, the article illustrates near-dwelling, or living near, as one distinctive context for neighbor relations, which involve material and sensorial aspects of neighboring. The article concludes that spatiality and materiality may condition yet not determine the nature of social relations among neighbors.
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Pattnaik, Jajati K., and Chandan K. Panda. "The Materiality of Space: Infrastructuring the Border Space in Arunachal Pradesh." India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, August 14, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09749284231183304.
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The materiality of space refers to the material constituents determining the space. The spatial imagination of the borderland, characterised by critical spatiality, is materially constituted. The fact of being materially constituted means to be infrastructurally configured. The infrastructures here include hydro projects, highways, railroads, bridges, tunnels, airports, digital connectivity and other defence-related installations. These projects combine a two-pronged approach: security and development. The security challenges that the border space embodies compel the state to adopt an approach of competitive infrastructure building. The nature of this competition is determined by the competing other’s approach towards the border space. Arunachal Pradesh is a very critical border state that shares its crucial border space of 1,080 km with China, 160 km with Bhutan and 440 km with Myanmar. China’s increasing geopolitical clout in the region intensifies its spatial and material prominence. India under its Act East Policy (AEP) formulation in 2014 has taken up a very determined approach to accelerating infrastructure growth in the northeast and more particularly in Arunachal Pradesh for its border spatiality. Therefore, the border space loses its inferential, conjectural and abstract character and becomes materially determined. This imperative for materiality embodies, on the one hand, development, modernity, capitalist social space and mainstreaming of the neglected and, on the other hand, protectionism and upgradation of security architecture along critical geography known as the border space. Therefore, this study examines the development of materiality, meaning infrastructure, in a complex border space like Arunachal Pradesh. It decodes the economic logic of the systematic development of border space by the Indian nation-state from the point of view of the growth of the region and security urgency. It uses Henri Lefebvre’s theoretical formulations of spatiality to understand the convoluted category of border space and the introduction of material forces to achieve security and developmental objectives.
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Chappell, Kerry, Sharon Witt, Heather Wren, Leonie Hampton, Pam Woods, Lizzie Swinford, and Martin Hampton. "Re‐Creating Higher Education Pedagogy by Making Materiality and Spatiality Matter." Journal of Creative Behavior, October 25, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jocb.619.
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ABSTRACTThis study marks a resting point within ongoing explorations of creativity, transdisciplinarity, materiality, and spatiality in Higher Education (HE) pedagogy. It interrogates how different materialities and spatialities shape learning to re‐create practices to better respond to societal challenges. This is situated within an imperative to move away from Western‐dominated approaches to pedagogy and research, where “Western” is characterized as onto‐epistemological rather than place‐based. The study draws on postqualitative enquiry into two creative, transdisciplinary HE courses, which entwined the arts, sciences, and entrepreneurship to facilitate responses to societal problems. Framed using posthumanizing creativity, the research aims to decenter the human and posit creativity as a dialogic, intra‐active process with the capacity to change education from within. A postqualitative approach works through three data diffractions. The first two involve glow moments used for collaging, cut through with theory. The third diffraction involves glow moments from which a short dance film was created. The study aims to stir readers/engagers to action their creativity as feeding forward into their own work in HE pedagogies, to consider how to move beyond the word, and the influences all of this can have on reimagining practices and changing structures.
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Riikka Makikoskela. "Experience of Resistance -The Potential of Materiality and Spatiality in Artistic Research." Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research, no. 3 (April 1, 2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/ruu.61432.
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Gomes, Romulo, and Leticia Dias Fantinel. "GENDER-BODY-SEXUALITY IN SPATIALIZING: PRODUCING BODIES-IN-THE-FIELD IN RESEARCH." Revista de Administração de Empresas 62, no. 4 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0034-759020220407x.
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ABSTRACT This article aims to examine spatiality in research work based on the body, gender and sexuality relations established between research subjects and the researcher in an ethnographic theoretical-empirical study. Taking as our starting point theories about spatiality and materiality, we have developed conceptually the notion of bodies-in-the-field as a possible way to produce knowledge not about, but with specific individual lives. This approach also allows us to understand the body based on organizational practices and to break with processes that silence and hierarchically situate specific bodies and produce theoretical and empirical gaps in research, insofar as it aims to give visibility to and problematize the researcher body in the production of space. In Organizational Studies, this approach is relevant to an ethical and political research agenda concerned with fostering dialogue with and recognition of different bodies, genders, and sexualities, thus expanding the possibilities of organizational practice.
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Kerestetzi, Katerina. "The spirit of a place: materiality, spatiality, and feeling in Afro-American religions." Journal de la société des américanistes 104, no. 104-1 (June 15, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/jsa.15573.
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Booth, Kate. "Critical insurance studies: Some geographic directions." Progress in Human Geography, August 13, 2021, 030913252110361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03091325211036181.
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Critical insurance studies recognises insurance as not purely actuarial and calculative. From this recognition, this theoretically informed research pays attention to the reproduction of power in insurantial discourse and practice, and possibilities for equitable change. To extend geographical contributions in this regard, I review critical insurance research and describe three intersecting foci – governmentality, materiality and spatiality. I also contribute new insights in considering insurance as co-constituting fluid and fire space – as flowing and adapting within everyday complexities, and as fiery and constituted through multiple flickering realities. These contestable multiplicities and mobilities may contribute to more equitable configurations beyond the hegemonic.
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Segerink, Jasper, and Kristof Loockx. "Lodging houses as facilitators of global and local entanglements in harbour districts: evidence from the port of Antwerp c. 1860–1910." Urban History, January 24, 2024, 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926823000640.
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Abstract The late nineteenth-century harbour districts, or so-called ‘sailortowns’, are generally depicted as deterritorialized ‘enclaves’ of heightened globalized transience. However, these neighbourhoods were just as much shaped by semi-durable local labouring communities. This article studies lodging houses as facilitators of global and local entanglements in harbour districts from a socio-cultural perspective, with Antwerp in the late nineteenth century as a case-study. Analysing the spatiality, materiality, sociability and people of the lodging phenomenon, it reveals that next to the highly transient seafarers, sailortown accommodated a diverse yet largely local population of small entrepreneurs and their families right between transience and permanence.
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Dannreuther, Roland. "Oil, materiality and International Relations." International Relations, February 13, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00471178241231726.
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Oil is a major topic in International Relations (IR). However, the discipline has tended to focus primarily on the effects and impacts of oil, particularly in relation to conflict, war and empire, and on the international political economy of oil, such as the role of the large oil companies and the oil-rich producer states. This article offers a more holistic approach by adopting a new materialisms framework. This framework has the physical materiality of oil, and its agentic capacity to produce social and political relations over time and space, at its centre. This offers new perspectives along the material journey of oil from exploration, production to transportation, processing and consumption. This, in turn, provides a more differentiated history of oil as a material force that shapes human and political interaction. The benefit of this approach is that it requires IR to be in a more substantive dialogue with other disciplines, most notably with human geography which has a strong tradition of research on energy and spatiality, but also with other disciplines in the social sciences and with the growing body of work in energy humanities. In addition, adopting a new materialisms approach to the study of oil acts as a potential template for the study of other energy resources and products, such as gas and coal as well as renewables such as wind and solar energy.
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Pardue, Derek, and Lucas Amaral de Oliveira. "City as mobility: a contribution of brazilian saraus to urban theory." Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology 15, no. 1 (May 10, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-43412018v15n1a400.
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Abstract The article analyzes saraus movement - poetry readings in São Paulo’s periphery - as a cultural phenomenon that over recent years has transformed the city space into a vibrant socio-political project. The movement offers important insights for an anthropology of cities by highlighting the materiality of mobility and spatiality, understood here as a set of social and cultural practices that involve the existential knowledge, social networking, and local community empowerment gained from mobility between predominantly peripheral neighborhoods and urban labor centers. We examine how saraus contribute to the construction of a new imaginary of the city and public space occupied by the socially excluded and racialized peripheries. We provide an analytical and empirical contribution to city production and urban theory, and demonstrate that mobility and the encounter are not simply temporary extraneous interactions, but rather experiences constitutive of social knowledge.
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Sergeeva, Anastasia V. "A Postphenomenological Perspective On the Changing Nature of Work." Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), September 6, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-022-09447-2.
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AbstractIn this essay, I take a postphenomenological perspective on tracing work transformation during the pandemic, arguing that this perspective helps develop novel sensitivities to the nature of work. Postphenomenology brings into high relief the view on work as reliant on sensory performances and embodied relations, complementing already rich accounts of work being reliant on discursive interactions, social order, and spatiality. The focus of postphenomenology on ‘non-neutrality’ and the multistability of technology provides a useful lens for revealing a multiplicity of changes, encompassing both augmentations and reductions of work experiences and evaluating their consequences for the actors involved. Finally, its attention to the transparency of technology amidst the embodied experiences gives a handle on the role of materiality in the performance of work and may be taken up as informing design efforts. A case study vignette of physiotherapy work during lockdown is offered as an illustration of applying some of the postphenomenological ideas.
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McAtackney, Laura. "A Suitable Place to Remember? Derelict Magdalen Laundries as Possible Sites of Conscience in Contemporary Ireland." Space and Culture, December 31, 2021, 120633122110655. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/12063312211065560.
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It is less than a decade since the Irish government published the McAleese Report, which accepted the state’s role in facilitating abuse in Catholic Church-run Magdalen Laundries. At the time the then Taoiseach Enda Kenny tearfully apologizing for the state’s involvement, alongside promising redress for survivors. Although much has been achieved since that time, one aspect that has not been resolved is how we remember and memorialize that past. Of the 10 Magdalen Laundries that operated in postindependence Ireland, seven have been demolished or substantially redeveloped and three are currently in various degrees of dereliction. This article considers the potential for extant Magdalen Laundries to become sites of conscience. It will explore this potential through the lens of temporality, materiality, and spatiality and will ultimately argue for the need to explore scalar power relations if Magdalen Laundries are to truly reflect past injustices as well as become meaningful places in the contemporary.
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Puutio, Eveliina, Suvi Pihkala, Jukka Lehtonen, and Tuija Huuki. "School, Online Communities and Creative Workshops as Spaces for Non-normative Pre-teen Gendered and Sexual Cultures." YOUNG, June 8, 2023, 110330882311628. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11033088231162893.
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This study focuses on how space acts in shaping non-normative pre-teen gendered and sexual cultures. It was conducted in Northern Finland and consists of an arts-based case study of a group of 12- to 13-year-old students, who during our creative workshops on gender, sexuality and power reflected on the possibilities of gender and sexual diversity in their everyday lives. Inspired by feminist new materialist scholarship, which focuses on spatiality and materiality in co-constituting gendered and sexual meanings, in the analysis, we explore how school and social media—two central life spheres of today’s youth—act in affording distinct possibilities for transgressive gender and sexuality as well as attachments to LGBTIQ+ communities. Furthermore, the analysis indicates how non-normative relationalities can be supported in school-based creative workshops. By mapping how spaces co-constitute non-normative gender and sexuality, we can develop them to promote the sexual rights and welfare of young people.