Gender, Class, and Space

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Pratt ◽  
S Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
Metropolitan Statistical Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Social Area

The social area analyses and factorial ecologies of the 1950s and 1960s have constrained the way in which scholars conceptualize urban space; in particular, one can trace contemporary arguments regarding the social reproduction of class to the notion of homogeneous neighborhoods that emerges from social area analyses and factorial ecology. It is argued that the growth in female labor-force participation, the fact of occupational sex segregation, and other recent demographic trends have important implications for the social geography of the North American city. With 1980 Census data from the Worcester, MA Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, the impact of the gender division of labor on urban social space is described; in particular it is shown that occupational segregation is an important source of intraneighborhood class heterogeneity. The final section of the paper is an exploration of the implications of the findings for theories of social reproduction and for class-based urban politics.

scholarly journals The City in the Age of Remix

Media-N ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Nazmeeva
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Spatial Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Space Dynamics ◽  
Web Social

As a method of cultural production and communication, remix has permeated the way the social space is perceived, conceived of and lived. Physical social space is captured, constructed and mediated with digital tools and by a multitude of users. The explosive use of cultural software and social media is actively shaping the experience of architectural and urban space. Smart city movement proponents advocate for a kind of participatory decision-making in cities that is akin to digital social space dynamics. Within the architectural practice, the space is first produced as a digital remix. The social space, both online or offline, physical or digital, crowdsourced or expert-designed, is socially produced as a collective assemblage of the fragments of digital images.  This essay aims to outline four trajectories by which physical (architectural and urban) social space is intertwined and remixed with digital (social media and the web) social space, and the broader implications of such cross-hatchings. Additionally, this paper aims to bring this term to architectural and urban discourse. Positing that remix has become the dominant model of spatial production in the contemporary world, what are the implications of it for the social space and for the public? 

scholarly journals The Sonic Intra-Face of a Noisy Feminist Social Kitchen

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana España Keller
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site

This paper asks what is the value of transforming the kitchen into a sonic performative work and public site for art and social practice. A Public Kitchen is formed by recreating the private and domestic space of a kitchen into a public space through a sonic performance artwork. The kitchen table is a platform for exploring, repositioning and amplifying kitchen tools as material phenomena through electronic and manual manipulation into an immersive sonic performance installation. This platform becomes a collaborative social space, where somatic movement and sensory, sonic power of the repositioned kitchen tools are built on a relational architecture of iterative sound performances that position the art historical and the sociopolitical, transforming disciplinary interpretations of the body and technology as something that is not specifically exclusively human but post-human. A Public Kitchen represents a pedagogical strategy for organizing and responding collectively to the local, operating as an independent nomadic event that speaks through a creative practice that is an unfolding process. (Re)imagining the social in a Public Kitchen produces noisy affects in a sonic intra-face that can contribute to transforming our social imaginations, forming daring dissonant narratives that feed post-human ethical practices and feminist genealogies. This paper reveals what matters—a feminist struggle invaluable in channeling the intra-personal; through the entanglement of the self, where language, meaning and subjectivity are relational to human difference and to what is felt from the social, what informs from a multi-cultural nomadic existence and diffractive perspective. The labored body is entangled with post-human contingencies of food preparation, family and social history, ritual, tradition, social geography, local politics, and women’s oppression; and is resonant and communicates as a site where new sonic techniques of existence are created and experiences shared.

scholarly journals The Use of Marriage Data to Measure the Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Britain

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Prandy ◽  
W. Bottero
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Very High ◽  
Underlying Dimension

This article describes the construction of a measure of the social order in the nineteenth century, which will subsequently be used as a basis for studying processes of social reproduction (or social mobility). The technique of correspondence analysis is used to map the ordering of groups of occupations in two time periods 1777-1866 and 1867-1913. The data are derived from the occupations at marriage of the groom, his father and his father-in-law (the occupations of brides, unfortunately, being very much under-recorded). Marriage, it is argued, is a socially significant act linking, on average, families that occupy similar positions in the social order and analyses of the patterns of social interaction involved provide a means of determining the nature of the social space within which similarity is defined. The three occupations provide three pair-wise comparisons and each comparison gives a mapping of the row occupations and the column occupations six in all. Since any one of these should provide a measure of the social order, assuming there to be any consistency in such a concept, we would expect that, at both time periods, the result of the analyses would be six closely-related estimates of the same underlying dimension. This is what is found; the inter-correlations are very high. Furthermore, there is a very strong relationship between the measures of the social order constructed for the two time periods. The analyses are presented within a framework that emphasises the value of the procedures used for understanding the nature of measurement in social science.

scholarly journals Between Tradition and Modernity: Determining Spatial Systems of Privacy in the Domestic Architecture of Contemporary Iraq

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-81
Author(s):  
Ali Al-Thahab ◽  
Sabah Mushatat ◽  
Mohammed Gamal Abdelmonem
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Spatial Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The notion of privacy represents a central criterion for both indoor and outdoor social spaces in most traditional Arab settlements. This paper investigates privacy and everyday life as determinants of the physical properties and patterns of the built and urban fabric and will study their impact on traditional settlements and architecture of the home in the contemporary Iraqi city. It illustrates the relationship between socio-cultural aspects of public and private realms using the notion of the social sphere as an investigative tool of the concept of social space in Iraqi houses and local communities (Mahalla). This paper reports that in spite of the impact of other factors in articulating built forms, privacy embodies the primary role under the effects of Islamic rules, principles and culture. The crucial problem is the underestimation of traditional inherited values through opening social spaces to the outside that giving unlimited accesses to the indoor social environment creating many problems with regard to privacy and communal social integration.

scholarly journals HANOI

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Valentin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
The Social ◽  
City History ◽  
Human Use ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The article discusses the role that cities play in constructing and mediating particular historical accounts. Drawing on fieldwork experiences from Hanoi and Kathmandu it adopts a comparative perspective and explores how history is mediated, experienced and interpreted through the physical organisation of the city. History is conceptualised both chronologically as sequences of events that can be traced in the physical environment of the city and as a temporally specific narrative about the city and the wider society of which it is part. The article throws light on the impact different political regimes have had on the built environment and how this has informed the social organisation and human use of urban space in Hanoi. Comparing this with the social and physical organisation of Kathmandu two particular issues become salient, firstly the way in which the influence of foreign powers is physically manifest in the city; secondly how specific places, as national symbols of unity, frame everyday activities in the city.  

Queering social reproduction: Sex, care and activism in San Francisco

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802094787
Author(s):  
Max J Andrucki
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Urban Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sex Practices

In this paper I ask what is at stake when we move past static ontologies of the ‘gayborhood’ as a form of commercial and residential concentration in decline to theorise gay urban activism as a mode of queer social reproduction, through which queer caring labour ‘redeems’ the dislocations of the neoliberal city structured by oedipalised and capitalist social relations. Through well-documented formal and informal collective action, queers in the urban West have organised in response to health crises, exclusion and systemic threats of violence. Returning to socialist feminist imaginaries of care beyond the ‘social’, and to Guy Hocquenghem’s often-overlooked theory of the sociality of the anus, this paper draws on excerpts from the film Milk, the poetry of Thom Gunn and a discussion of gay men’s volunteering to examine San Francisco as a queer urban space constituted through a network of encounters, crossings, intimacies and labours enacted through the mundane caring practices of everyday life. I ask in what ways we can think of gay urban space as continuously made and remade through non-monogamous sex practices that perform the messy marrying of public and private, and erotic and platonic.

scholarly journals A natureza (dos) nos fatos urbanos: produção do espaço e degradação ambiental

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gislene PEREIRA
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One

Este trabalho pretende discutir a relação entre o processo de construção do espaço urbano, a segregação socioespacial e a degradação ambiental. A urbanização crescente da população no Brasil tem feito com que os problemas decorrentes desse processo (carência de infra-estrutura, densificação de áreas inadequadas, degradação ambiental, segregação socioespacial) centralizem nas últimas décadas as discussões de governantes, técnicos e cientistas sociais. Cabe, então, perguntar: por que nossas cidades não têm a qualidade que todos queremos, mesmo depois das inúmeras iniciativas preconizadas pelo poder público para reversão dessas tendências negativas? Nosso interesse aqui é discutir essas questões a partir do caso particular da cidade de Curitiba, a qual, apesar de vir se destacando por experiências bem sucedidas de planejamento, segue os padrões brasileiros no que se refere à segregação socioespacial. Entendemos que a discussão das questões urbanas deve ser centrada nos elementos que contribuem para a segregação socioespacial e nas possibilidades e limites das políticas públicas de controle do uso do solo respondendo de forma positiva para a sua superação. A partir do conhecimento da lógica da produção do espaço o trabalho pretende averiguar as possibilidades de integração das políticas urbanas, com o objetivo de promover a melhoria da qualidade ambiental. The nature (of) our urban facts: productions of space and environmental degradation Abstract This work intends to discuss the relation among the process of construction of the urban space, the social-spacial segregation and the environmental degradation. The growing urbanisation of the Brazilian population has led the problems which come from such process – lack of infrastructure, unsuitable densification of areas, environmental degradation, social-space segregation – to centralize the discussion of governmental rulings, technicians and social scientists. So, it’s worthy to ask: why our cities do not have the quality we want, even after several initiatives advocated by the public policies to revert these negative trends? Our interest here is to discuss such questions from the particular case of Curitiba city, the one which, despite of being standing out itself throughout well-succeded experiences of planning, follows the Brazilian patterns related to the social-spacial segregation. We understand that the discussion of urban questions must be focused on the elements which contribute to the social-spacial segregation and on the possibilities and limits of the public policies to answer in a positive way to their overcoming. From the knowledge of the production logic of the space, this work intends to check out the possibilities of integration of the urban policies, with the aim of promoting the increasing of the environmental quality.

The Travails of Domestic Visiting: Manchester, 1830–70

1998 ◽  
Vol 71 (175) ◽  
pp. 196-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
Community Or ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Discipline ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Abstract This article seeks to re-examine mid nineteenth century ‘home missionary’ activity or domestic visiting. It focuses on Manchester, a typical urban case in that it could boast an almost bewildering array of associations which sponsored such visiting, whose supporters were ever willing to laud the impact of their activities. It argues, however, that closer examination suggests that the feverish activity and public vindications masked deep flaws. The social geography of the city prevented them from either covering the whole community or from visiting comprehensively within those areas which were occupied. The visits were asked to bear an ideological load which far outstripped their capacity. While missionaries could help sustain a vibrant and significant minority religious sub-culture in the ‘slums’, they were scarcely the agents of social discipline suggested by recent commentators.

scholarly journals Social reproduction of generations in the face of digital challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 10022
Author(s):  
Oleg Sirotkin ◽  
Raisa Chumicheva ◽  
Irina Kulikovskaya ◽  
Liudmila Kudinova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intergenerational Ties

The article describes the global processes that are transforming the world (migration and integration processes, inclusive education, digitalization of education, socio-psychological gap between generations, etc.). Global tendencies have changed the social space of people's life - “cultural gaps”, “social bottom”, “spiritual crisis of parent-child relations and intergenerational ties”, etc. have appeared, as modern challenges of society, affecting the social reproduction of generations. The problem of social reproduction, the significance of which is associated with the need for the development of sociality, the construction of the social world in the event chronotope, has been actualized; preservation of the social and historical memory of the people, the self-identity of the national community, the “core” of the spiritual image of the nation, etc. A powerful challenge in modern society is digitalization, which has changed the forms of communication and social roles, created a new virtual space for self-presentation, self-expression, while the risk is the loss of cultural identity, blurring the lines between generations, etc. The article presents the mechanisms of integration of traditional and digital technologies of social reproduction of generations, the difference of which lies in the actualization of children's interest in the historical and cultural values of the people, in the organization of joint activities to create virtual historical museums, etc. Social reproduction of generations is a complex and long-term process, the success of which depends on the unity of activities in the professional, parenting and children's community.

scholarly journals Research experience of informal street markets in Khabarovsk-city

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.Н. ДЕМЬЯНЕНКО ◽  
М.В. КЛИЦЕНКО ◽  
В.Н. УКРАИНСКИЙ
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Informal Markets ◽  
Street Trading ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

В статье приведены результаты полевых исследований неформальных уличных рынков Хабаровска, имевших целью выявить и описать их пространственную организацию. В качестве тестируемой гипотезы было принято, что уличные неформальные рынки вписаны в социальное пространство города, а масштабы, сезонность и ассортимент реализуемой продукции, а также поведенческие паттерны участников обменов зависят от структуры городского пространства. Так как неформальные уличные рынки не наблюдаются и не фиксируются официальной статистикой, был использован традиционный метод изучения неформальных феноменов – полевые исследования, а также методы городской антропологии. При описании социального пространства г. Хабаровск были использованы методы как социально-экономического, так и вернакулярного микрорайонирования. Всего было выделено 15 внутригородских районов первого уровня членения социального пространства. Выявлено, что вернакулярные районы перемежаются лакунами, а их границы не имеют четкого характера. В ходе полевых исследований, продолжавшихся с апреля 2019 по июль 2020 г., было выявлено более 100 мест уличной торговли, которые объединены в три основных типа: постоянные, сезонные и эпизодические. Продавцы на неформальных рынках были объединены в три основные группы: «частники» (владельцы ЛПХ), «дачники» и «собиратели» (жители пригородов, реализующие на рынках «дары тайги»). Наблюдение за поведением отдельных социальных групп на неформальных рынках разных типов в различных районах свидетельствует в пользу того, что действительно существует связь между поведенческими паттернами агентов рынка и социокультурной средой. In the article, the results of field studies of the informal street markets in Khabarovsk intended to reveal and describe their spatial organization are presented. As the test hypothesis, it is anticipated that the street informal markets were incorporated into the social space of the city while the scales, seasonality and assortment of the realizable products as well as behavioral patterns of the exchange participants depend on the structure of the urban space. Because the informal street markets are not observed and fixed by the official statistics, the traditional methods of investigating the informal phenomena – field studies – as well as methods of the city anthropology were used. When describing the social space of Khabarovsk city, the methods of socio-economic and vernacular microzoning were used. In all, 15 inner-city districts of the first level were identified when dividing the social space. It was found that the vernacular districts alternate with lacunas and their boundaries are not of clear nature. In the course of the field studied continued from April, 2019, through July, 2020, more than 100 places of the street trading which were combined into three basic types: permanent, seasonal and episodic. The salesmen in the informal markets were combined into three basic groups: “private traders” (owners of personal subsidiary plots), “summer residents” and “gatherers” (suburban residents realizing in the markets the “gifts of taiga”). Observation of the behavior of particular social groups in the informal markets of different types in different districts attests to the fact that there is really relationship between the behavioral patterns of the market agents and sociocultural environment.

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