Preface: The Everyday Politics of Public Space

De Backer, Mattias; Dijkema, Claske; Hörschelmann, Kathrin (2019). Preface: The Everyday Politics of Public Space Space and Culture, 22(3), pp. 240-249. SAGE 10.1177/1206331219830080

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While in the past two decades a rich literature has emerged about the politics of public space, many of these theoretical works and empirical studies consider public space interactions and behaviors against the backdrop of deliberative or representative politics. In this special issue, to which this article is the preface, we offer some reflections on how the everyday and the micro-level can be sites of political expression, leading inevitably to a critical discussion of the central assumptions regarding private/public space and its generational, gendered, classed, and “culturalized” construction. This analysis takes place with three theoretical axes in the background: Katz’s minor theory, anarchist theory on prefigurative politics, and Foucault, de Certeau, and Lefebvre’s work on power, knowledge, and place.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	School of Social Work > Institute for Social and Cultural Diversity School of Social Work
Name:	De Backer, Mattias; Dijkema, Claske0000-0001-7967-2691 and Hörschelmann, Kathrin
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
ISSN:	1206-3312
Publisher:	SAGE
Language:	English
Submitter:	Claske Dijkema
Date Deposited:	31 May 2023 11:04
Last Modified:	31 May 2023 11:04
Publisher DOI:	10.1177/1206331219830080
Related URLs:	https://journals.sagepub.com/home/SAC
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Public space Everyday politics Minor theory Power and place Prefigurative politics
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.19256
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/19256