Spatial Conflicts and Conflictual Spaces

Hubert Knoblauch is Professor for General Sociology/Theories of Modern Society at the Technische Universität Berlin and Co-Chair of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC 1265) “Re-Figuration of Spaces” with Martina Löw. His main research areas include Sociological Theory, Sociology of Knowledge, Religion, Language, Qualitative Methods, Videography. He recently published the monograph The Communicative Construction of Reality (2020).Dr. Vivien Sommer is a sociologist researching knowledge, practices, and memory with a focus on European borders. Since 2023, she leads the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group on socio-spatial memory at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space and is part of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC 1265) “Re-Figuration of Spaces” at Technische Universität Berlin. Her work focuses on empirically grounded theory development in the fields of Sociology of Knowledge and Space, as well as the development of innovative qualitative methods.Barbara Pfetsch is Professor of Communication Theory and Media Effects research at Freie Universität Berlin and a principal investigator at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Her research and publications focus on comparative political communication, online communication and digital issue networks, and transnational and European public spheres.

• 1. Introduction: Spatial conflicts and conflictual spaces in the age of refiguration—Current research perspectives Hubert Knoblauch, Vivien Sommer, and Barbara Pfetsch2. Containing or acting on conflict through space: A heuristic of conflict-space interplay Zozan Baran and Barbara PfetschPart 1. Macroregimes and spatial conflicts3. Regional free movement: Ongoing spatial conflicts between macroterritorial and national levels—A case study of ECOWAS, the EU, and Mercosur Zoé Perko and Dorothea Biaback Anong4. Conflicts of modernities: The spaces of health care in French-speaking West African popular culture Séverine Marguin and Daddy DibingaPart 2. Tensions in digital spaces5. Borders on the internet? The RIPE debate about the internet in the wake of the war in Ukraine Sezgin Soenmez and Hubert Knoblauch 6. From safe(r) space to safe(r) spacing: Queer spatial conflict in Cape Town and Berlin Nicolas Zehner, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Daniel Grönefeld, and Philip Baumbach7. Algorithmic regulation across physical and digital spaces: Analyzing Airbnb’s marketplace in US and European cities over time Stefan Kirchner and Simon C. PohlPart 3. Land rights and conflictual spaces8. Notions of land—Figurations of conflict: Spatial forms of conflicts and the making of Kaloleni and Makongeni Makau Kitata and Jochen Kibel9. The (re)making of conflictual spaces: New urban frontiers and infrastructure-led development in Nairobi Alexander Kohrs, Linda Hering, and John K. Shadrack10. Spatial tensions and conflict: Forcibly displaced people in Lagos and Amman Qusay Amer, Rebecca Enobong Roberts, and Francesca CeolaPart 4. Social exclusion and spatial knowledge11. Spatial conflict containment in Singapore: Pacifying conflictual spaces by (in)visibilizing them in urban infrastructure Nina Baur and Elmar Kulke12. Growing up (un)knowingly in a cage: Youths’ conflictive spatial knowledge Ignacio Castillo Ulloa, Anna Juliane Heinrich, Angela Million, and Ludovica Tomarchio13. Beyond remembrance: Spatial dynamics in commemorating racist violence in Solingen and RostockKübra Gencal, Emma Luna Brahm, and Daniel KubiakPart 5. Struggles over ecology and space14. Socioecological transformation and conflict: Arenas, topics, and dimensions Miriam Schad and Bernd Sommer15. The spatial dimension of climate justice conflicts and solidarities: A conceptual modelDaniela Stoltenberg, Barbara Pfetsch, Zozan Baran, and Annie Waldherr16. Conflicts along the “fresh air corridors” of Stuttgart: The figurational politics of climate adaptation Indrawan Prabaharyaka and Ignacio Farías