Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces
The Refiguration of Space

Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces

Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies

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Through a variety of empirical studies, this volume offers fresh insights into the manner in which different forms of communicative action transform urban space. With attention to the methodological questions that arise from the attempt to study such changes empirically, it offers new theoretical foundations for understanding the social construction and reconstruction of spaces through communicative action. Seeing communicative action as the basic element in the social construction of reality and conceptualizing communication not only in terms of the use of language and texts, but as involving any kind of objectification, such as technologies, bodies and non-verbal signs, it considers the roles of both direct and mediatized (or digitized) communication. An examination of the conceptualization of the communicative (re-)construction of spaces and the means by which this change might be empirically investigated, this book demonstrates the fruitfulness of the notion of refiguration as a means by which to understand the transformation of contemporary societies. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, and geographers with interests in social construction and urban space.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2022
15 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
290
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor and Francis
SIZE
12.4
MB
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