Social Production of Space

'The Imaginary Topographies of the Megali Idea: National Territory as Utopia', (Co-authored with Anastasia Stouraiti)

by Alexander Kazamias

Spatial Conceptions of the Nation: Modernizing Geographies in Greece and Turkey. Ed. by Diamandouros, N., Dragonas, T., and Keyder, C., London, I.B.Tauris, 2010, pp.11-34

Cemil Boyraz from Istanbul Bilgi University wrote about this essay:
"The authors’ short theoretical... more Cemil Boyraz from Istanbul Bilgi University wrote about this essay:
"The authors’ short theoretical discussion in the last page of the article carries crucial importance as criticism of the widely held assumption that “the nation is thought to be an entity linked to a specific geographical area marked by clearly defined boundaries".
Turkish Studies, 11:3, Sept. 2010, p.498.

After December: Spatial Legacies of the 2008 Athens Uprising. In Upping the Anti vol 10.

by Dimitris Dalakoglou

See: http://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/10-after-december-spatial-legacies-of-the-2008-athens-uprising/

The cold-blooded police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia on... more The cold-blooded police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia on December 6, 2008 sparked an unprecedented wave of protests and rioting. These protests quickly spread not only throughout Athens and the majority of Greek cities but also beyond the country’s borders. Around the world, more than 200 solidarity actions took place in December alone. During the riots and clashes that followed Grigoropoulos’ death, police departments, banks, government ministries, and other public buildings in Athens came under near-daily attack, while universities, high schools, town halls, and other buildings were occupied by demonstrators across the country. This episode ­– a major insurrection sparked by a single incident of police brutality – has attracted considerable attention from global social justice movements. The question of the uprising’s aftermath remains on many people’s minds. Before considering the legacies of the uprising, however, it’s useful to look at how the events of December 2008 became possible in the first place.

La espacialidad social en el estudio de la industrialización: Estructuras sin escalas, territorios sin sujetos

by Jorge Alonso Estrada

Región y Sociedad. Revista de El Colegio de Sonora
Vol. V, no. 15, enero-junio de 1998

Last Call for Papers "Raumwissen und Wissensräume"; Deadline 25-04-12

by Stefan Schreiber

Call for Papers: "Raumwissen und Wissensräume. Interdisziplinärer Theorie-Workshop für NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen" des Lesezirkels der Cross Sectional Group V „Space and Collective Identities“ des Exzellenzclusters „Topoi. The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations” vom 7.–9. August 2012 in Berlin

more info at: http://www.topoi.org/event/raumwissen-und-wissensraume/

Thesis Defense Presentation: "A ver quem passa". O Rossio. Proceso social y dinámicas interactivas en una plaza del centro de Lisboa.

by Daniel Malet Calvo

Defensa de la Tesis Doctoral, leída y discutida el 31 de octubre de 2011 entre las 11 y las 14 en la "Sala Gran" de la Facultat de Geografia i Història de la Universitat de Barcelona.

Autor: Daniel Malet Calvo

Director: Manuel Delgado Ruiz

Tribunal: Joan J. Pujadas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili); Manuel João Ramos (ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa); Gerard Horta (Universitat de Barcelona)

Calificación: Excelente "Cum Laude" por unanimidad

Las Apropiaciones Socioespaciales del Sistema Hiace en el mercado de Sucupira de Praia (Isla de Santiago, Cabo Verde)

by Daniel Malet Calvo

XII Congreso de Antropología de la FAAEE. Lugares, Tiempos, Memorias. La antropología Ibérica en el siglo XXI. Simposio: Ciudades y ciudadanía: entre el escaparate global y la experiencia del lugar. León 6-9 de septiembre de 2011

Wo befinden sich Systeme

by Alexander Filippov

Exploring Jewish Space: A Conceptual Approach

by Anna Lipphardt

(together with Julia Brauch and Alexandra Nocke), in Jewish Topographies – Visions of Space, Traditions of Place,ed. by Brauch/Lipphardt/Nocke, Heritage, Culture, and Identity series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 1-23

For the introduction article follow the link below, if you want to learn more about the book as a whole check out the... more For the introduction article follow the link below, if you want to learn more about the book as a whole check out the Ashgate website

http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=348&title_id=9846&edition_id=10562

Heaven is a Place on Earth: Church and Sacred Space in 13th century Iceland

by Sverrir Jakobsson

A draft version of an article published in Scandinavian Studies, 82 (2010), 1-20.

Review of Mark George, Israel's Tabernacle as Social Space. Journal of Religion 91 (2011): 545-46.

by Cory Crawford

material adventures, spatial productions: manoeuvring sculpture towards a proliferating event

by Bianca Hester

Neoliberalism as discourse: between Foucauldian political economy and Marxian poststructuralism

by Simon Springer

Springer, S. Forthcoming. Neoliberalism as discourse: between Foucauldian political economy and Marxian poststructuralism. Critical Discourse Studies.

Contemporary theorizations of neoliberalism are framed by a false dichotomy between, on the one hand, studies... more Contemporary theorizations of neoliberalism are framed by a false dichotomy between, on the one hand, studies influenced by Foucault in emphasizing neoliberalism as a form of governmentality, and on the other hand, inquiries influenced by Marx in foregrounding neoliberalism as a hegemonic ideology. This article seeks to shine some light on this division in an effort to open up new debates and recast existing ones in such a way that might lead to more flexible understandings of neoliberalism as a discourse. A discourse approach moves theorizations forward by recognizing neoliberalism is neither a ‘top down’ nor ‘bottom up’ phenomena, but rather a circuitous process of socio-spatial transformation.

Föreställningar om stadsomvandlingens Kiruna

by Jennie Sjöholm

Espacio y desaparición. Los campos de concentración en Argentina - Pamela Colombo

by Pamela Colombo

Isegoría, No 45 (2011):639-652

Partiendo de la hipótesis de que la técnica aniquilación por desaparición forzada de personas en Argentina (1974-1983)... more Partiendo de la hipótesis de que la técnica aniquilación por desaparición forzada de personas en Argentina (1974-1983) reconfiguró el espacio; el trabajo que desarrollo en el presente artículo consiste en indagar acerca de las particularidades de la dimensión espacial en los campos de concentración en Tucumán. El análisis gira en torno a tres ejes centrales: la negación de las referencias espacio-temporales a los detenidos-desaparecidos dentro del campo; el modo en que los desaparecidos «a pesar de todo» se representan un espacio y un tiempo concentracionario; y por último, el modo en que superponen e interpenetran los espacios del afuera con el adentro del campo. Este trabajo de análisis se sustenta en entrevistas en profundidad que he realizado a familiares de desaparecidos y sobrevivientes de campos de concentración en Tucumán.

"Rituales y nuevos espacios religiosos en el movimiento carismático del Padre Ignacio"

by Ana Lucía Olmos Alvarez

Ponencia presentada en el  X Congreso Argentino de Antropología Social – Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas/ Departamento de Antropología Social (FFyL – UBA) y Colegio de Graduados de Antropología Social de la República Argentina. Buenos Aires, 29 de noviembre al 2 de diciembre de 2011

La expansión constante del campo sociorreligioso argentino se evidencia en la proliferación de cultos y... more
La expansión constante del campo sociorreligioso argentino se evidencia en la proliferación de cultos y agrupaciones religiosas que desafían el supuesto monopolio del catolicismo, habilitándonos a describir este proceso como un “re-encantamiento” del mundo. En este contexto, nos proponemos describir los procesos de transformación de la territorialidad religiosa, en su relación específica con el ritual, en el movimiento carismático de sanación formado en torno al padre Ignacio Peries, párroco de la iglesia Natividad del Señor (Rosario, Provincia de Santa Fe).
En el caso de estudio, notamos que la religiosidad franquea las fronteras de los espacios institucionales formales, en aras de incluir ámbitos externos y distintos a ellos, no siempre en arreglo a preceptos institucionales.
Constituyen el foco de nuestro interés los intercambios que se efectúan entre el cura y los asistentes, otorgando centralidad a las bendiciones  (imposición de manos mediante) y al deber hogareño  que el Padre Ignacio encarga a los asistentes por el lapso de dos meses, para luego retornar a la iglesia. En este sentido, buscaremos evidenciar cómo se genera y qué características adquiere dicho intercambio.

Identità, luogo, comunità

by Cristina Balma Tivola

2010, unprinted, licensed under CC3.0.

An anthropological observation of space and place, and of the sense of 'belonging' connected to what we call 'home'. An anthropological observation of space and place, and of the sense of 'belonging' connected to what we call 'home'.

Mediating Touristic Dangerscapes: The Semiotics of State Travel Warnings

by Chaim Noy

Noy, C. & Kohn, A. (2010). Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 8(3): 206-222.

Official ‘travel warnings’ are recurrently published by the Counter-Terrorism Bureau in Israeli media, with the aim of... more Official ‘travel warnings’ are recurrently published by the Counter-Terrorism Bureau in Israeli media, with the aim of informing potential tourists about the dangers of terrorism aimed at Israelis who travel abroad. These travel warnings, which juxtapose menacing warnings with tranquil visual representations of touristic vacationscapes, have recently gained a considerable public attention and have sprouted discussions around local tourism and identities. In this article, we offer a discursive and semiotic analysis of 55 travel warning articles, which appeared between 1998 and 2010 in printed and digital Hebrew press in Israel. We address visual and textual aspects of the articles and ask how they represent and mediate touristic vacationscapes. Following recent developments (‘turns’) in both tourism studies and media studies, we argue that these warnings articles construct multilayered spatial–visual representations of tourist destinations, which amount to a unique genre of tourism imagery in and of itself. Focussing on travel warnings addressing Israeli tourists who travel to the Eastern shores of the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, we find that these combined or hybrid images and spaces present a convergence of two contemporary systems of representation, related to tourism and mass media, respectively, and construct a charged and mediated cultural space in Israeli collective imagination.

(with Alexander Kazamias), 'The Imaginary Topographies of the Megali Idea: National Territory as Utopia', N. Diamandouros, T. Dragonas and C. Keyder (eds), Spatial Conceptions of the Nation: Modernizing Geographies in Greece and Turkey (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010), pp. 11-34.

by Anastasia Stouraiti

The Figure of the "Fil-Whatever": Filipino American Trans-Pacific Social Movements and the Rise of Radical Cosmopolitanism

by Marco Cuevas-Hewitt

Published in 2010 in the 'World Anthropologies Network E-Journal', drawn from my doctoral fieldwork with Filipino American environmental justice activists.

In this article I focus on diasporic social movements – sites where the cultural becomes political. Drawing upon the... more In this article I focus on diasporic social movements – sites where the cultural becomes political. Drawing upon the specific case study of Filipino American activists in the San Francisco Bay Area, with whom I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in 2007, I will examine contending practices of transnational activism vis-à-vis the Philippine ‘homeland’ and will endeavour to bring to light the ways in which these practices (and the epistemologies informing them) have been changing in line with the rise of globalisation. I will identify, in particular, three principal cultural-political imaginaries which have emerged at different points in time within the changing global context: ‘diasporic pan-nationalism’, ‘diasporic internationalism’ and ‘diasporic cosmopolitanism’. I will suggest that the former two were understandable responses to the changing global context, but that only diasporic cosmopolitanism has succeeded in becoming an imaginary wholly contingent in contemporary realities. After establishing this argument, I will take a more philosophical tack and zoom in a little closer on the question of radical cosmopolitan identity. In particular, I will examine the possibility of new forms of belonging that do not hinge on sameness; that is to say, on reductive, nationalistic essences. Here I will theorise the figure of the ‘Fil-Whatever’, drawing upon Giorgio Agamben’s (1993, pp. 18-19) philosophical concept of ‘whatever’, which he uses to denote an’inessential commonality’; that is, ‘a solidarity that in no way concerns an essence’. My contention is that diasporic Filipinos need not be condemned to static identity formulations such as ‘Filipino Australian’ or ‘Filipino American’, nor need they see themselves as merely inauthentic copies of their ‘authentic’ counterparts in the homeland, but can converge instead in new forms of non-absolutist, anti-essentialist, cosmopolitan belonging

Cartographies of Hybridity: A Mexican American Case Study Exploring the Juncture Between Globalisation, Cultural Identity and Social Space

by Marco Cuevas-Hewitt

This article was published in 'Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies' in 2007, and won the Iain Brash Prize for that year. It was based on my undergraduate Honours thesis.

This article will explore the impacts of globalisation on cultural identities and conceptualisations of social space.... more This article will explore the impacts of globalisation on cultural identities and conceptualisations of social space. Using Mexican Americans as a case study, I will firstly consider the rise the Chicano Movement; a cultural nationalist project that emerged amongst Mexican Americans in the 1960s. After examining cultural identities that emerged during this period, I will consider the subsequent rise of globalisation and how it has influenced identity-formations. I will demonstrate that Mexican Americans are reworking their identities in ways which go beyond the old cultural nationalist project towards new post-nationalist, cosmopolitan modes of identification. Parallel shifts are taking place in Mexican American constructions of social space, with nationalist conceptualisations of space now yielding to the notion of a borderlands. Lastly, I will consider how Mexican Americans’ changing views of social space are couched in different understandings of their own hybridity. I will hence attempt to produce a tentative sketch of a theory regarding the relationship between cultural hybridity and social space.