Spatial Conflicts and Conflictual Spaces

This volume explores the refiguration of space as a theoretical framework, presenting empirical studies and offering insights on the dynamics of social order in the post-globalization era, examining how conflicts arise within space and how spatial dynamics shape social tensions across different regions.

Autorentext

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).

Dr. Vivien Sommer is a sociologist researching knowledge, practices, and memory with a focus on European borders. Since 2023, she leads the Emmy Noether Junior 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.

Inhalt

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. Macroregimes 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
   Sezgin Soenmez and Hubert Knoblauch

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 C. Pohl

Part 3. Land rights and conflictual spaces

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 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, Anna Juliane Heinrich, Angela Million, and Ludovica Tomarchio

13. Beyond remembrance: Spatial dynamics in commemorating racist violence in Solingen and Rostock
    Kübra Gencal, Emma Luna 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
    Indrawan Prabaharyaka and Ignacio Farías