Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Space is a difficult concept to grasp, full of abstractions (Creswell 2008) and increasingly understood in conjunction with power and knowledge (Lefebvre 1999 among others).Space will be considered as 'one of the dimensions of the society that corresponds to relationships established through distance between diverse realities' (Lévy & Lussault 2003: 325).Henri Lefebvre (1974) stresses space's mental and material dimensions and the fact that space is an instrument of domination.As Tim Creswell (2008) puts it, following John Agnew (1987), space can be seen as embracing a network of places, which are a combination of a location (the answer to the question 'where?'), a locale (the material setting) and a sense of place (subjective and emotional attachment to place).Place is often considered to be the equivalent of the French word lieu, defined by Lévy and Lussault (2003) as the smallest geographical unit where distance is abolished so that co-presence is the main feature of a lieu.Place is therefore where social relations take place and where spatial meanings are created.In this issue, we also seek to stress the fact that migrations Introduction.
DOI: 10.4000/samaj.3439
Authors: Tristan Bruslé, Aurélie Varrel
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1511659738