[from the Preface] […] The primary objective of this second section on rethinking the quality of public space from a sociological perspective is to observe the quality of public space in light of the changes and crises we have witnessed in previous decades through the analytical construct of refiguration (Knoblauch, Löw, 2017). Analyzing through refiguration has the advantage of capturing quality by considering the interdependence of structures, systems, levels and actions in maintaining multiscalar perspectives and subjective dimensions. The prevailing socio-spatial approach, partly oriented by the call itself, is based on the theory of relational space (Löw, 2016), which understands aspects of spatial ordering in processual, socio-material and discursive perspectives […]
Dall’indice:
Alain Touraine: l’immaginazione sociologica. In memoriam
la società contemporanea / Re-thinking the quality of public space (II)
Letteria G. Fassari, Martina Löw, Gioia Pompili, Emanuela Spanò, Preface
Dominik Bartmanski, Gunter Weidenhaus, Emplaced Qualities. A Phenomenological Theory of Space and Experience in the Club
Culture Context
Nina Meier, The Value of Quality: Conflicting Orders of Worth Assigning the Quality of Space
Valentina Cuzzocrea, Fabio Bertoni, Giuliana Mandich, ‘It was like walking inside myself’: Youngwomen’s Practices of Domestication in the Gendered City
Gioia Pompili, Emanuela Spanò, Ambivalent Quality: the Neighbourhood as a Space of Intensities
Antonio Famiglietti, What Is Quality Public Space? The Debate in a Metropolitan Neighbourhood
contiene uno speciale della sezione teoria e ricerca dedicato a “Pietro Rossi e la sociologia: classici e istituzionalizzazione”, a cura di Sergio Scamuzzi