Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies

This book explores how communicative action transforms urban space through empirical studies, offering new theoretical foundations for understanding the social construction and reconstruction of spaces. It considers the roles of direct and mediatized communication and the concept of refiguration as a means to understand the transformation of contemporary societies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 290 pages
Publication date: 16 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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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.

Weight: 454g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367419974