Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Space, a socially-embedded dimension of human action, has long been insufficiently addressed. Over the last three decades, it has increasingly become the focus of scholarly debates, shaping various research fields (especially those related to education, care and health). This article aims to reconstruct these scholarly discussions concerning space. Against this background, the article proposes a concept of space that fundamentally understands space as ‘social space’, which comprises the constantly (re)produced fabric of social practices. Such a conceptualisation transcends concepts of social space that are absolute and reduced to physical-material dimensions, as well as those that ignore the material dimensions of space, allowing for a relational understanding of space that focuses on the interplay between physical (territorial/geographical) and societal dimensions of spatiality.
Source: European Journal of Social Work
Authors: Fabian Kessl, Christian Reutlinger
Language: English
Topic: Spatial and Cultural Studies
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4414535926