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Purpose: This paper analyzes the forms of spatial practices carried out by migrants from the Islands Regency in Makassar City in order to maintain ethnic and family social relations.   Methods: This research is descriptive urban space sociology research. This research uses qualitative methods in presenting data and analyzing research findings.   Results and Conclusion: The results of the research show that the Selayar tribe has a life principle of always gathering with family in overseas lands. This principle of life makes them buy a plot of land in a location close to relatives and marry into their own family. Changes in urban space through development policies make it difficult for Selayar people to live in one residential location. As a result, Selayar people try to create new communication spaces to maintain their social relations.   Research implications: The results of this research provide an overview of the spatial practices carried out by ethnic groups in an effort to maintain their social relations.   Originality/value: The spatial practice of a group of people in urban areas is part of an interesting sociological topic to analyze, including strategies for maintaining social relationships. Objetivo: Este artigo analisa as formas de práticas espaciais realizadas por migrantes da Regência das Ilhas na cidade de Makassar, a fim de manter relações sociais étnicas e familiares. Métodos: Esta pesquisa é uma pesquisa descritiva da sociologia do espaço urbano. Esta pesquisa utiliza métodos qualitativos na apresentação de dados e na análise dos resultados da pesquisa. Resultados e Conclusão: Os resultados da pesquisa mostram que a tribo Selayar tem como princípio de vida sempre se reunir com a família em terras ultramarinas. Esse princípio de vida faz com que comprem um terreno em local próximo de parentes e se casem com alguém da própria família. As mudanças no espaço urbano através de políticas de desenvolvimento tornam difícil para a população Selayar viver num local residencial. Como resultado, o povo Selayar tenta criar novos espaços de comunicação para manter as suas relações sociais. Implicações da investigação: Os resultados desta pesquisa fornecem um panorama das práticas espaciais realizadas por grupos étnicos no esforço de manter suas relações sociais. Originalidade/valor: A prática espacial de um grupo de pessoas em áreas urbanas faz parte de um tema sociológico interessante de analisar, incluindo estratégias para manutenção de relações sociais.  

This paper focuses on the ways in which the politics of migration impacts upon the everyday geographies of immigrant young people living in Ireland. We contrast the ways in which young people's participation in socio-spatial practices, at varying scales, are shaped in different ways specifically because of the immigration procedures they are subjected to. We draw on material from a longitudinal, qualitative research project in which we have used a range of participatory methods with young people aged 13 to 18 who are living in Ireland.

Organizational spaces project claims of organizational legitimacy while also constituting physical environments where work happens. This research questions how organizational space and legitimacy are mutually constituted over time as organizations experience shifts in work and institutional demands. Building on a qualitative case study of Paris Dauphine University, a French university founded in the late 1960s that has, since its inception, occupied the former North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters, we theorize the dynamic intersection of organizational space and legitimacy over time. The case study demonstrates how spatial practices of appropriation, reappropriation, and disappropriation intersect with and inform what we call “spatial legacies” that function to establish or repair an alignment between organizational space and legitimacy. Spatial practices of appropriation and reappropriation build and manipulate spatial legacies, whereas spatial practices of disappropriation attempt to break away from such legacies. Appropriation and reappropriation involve managing spatial legacies to maintain the alignment between organizational space and legitimacy claims. Disappropriation involves trying to erase or alter these legacies to realign the space to changing legitimacy claims. This research adds to the literature on sociomateriality by adopting a longitudinal perspective that highlights legacies as nondeterministic outcomes of past imbrications of the social and the material, to research on legitimacy by conceptualizing it as a sociomaterial construction, and to research on organizational spaces by revealing the institutional underpinnings of spatial transformations. This research also holds practical implications by highlighting the relationships between space as it is designed and used and an organization’s legitimacy claims and by showing how claiming the immutability or flexibility of a space can be legitimizing for an organization.

As digital platforms increasingly structure how cities are navigated, seen, and valued, urban walking practices have become sites of both algorithmic capture and tactical improvisation. This study examines the emergence of City Walk (城市漫步) in China as a form of platform-native counter-mapping. This user-led spatial practice utilizes digital tools to document, reframe, and disseminate alternative urban narratives. Drawing on digital ethnography, platform content analysis, and interviews in four Chinese cities, the study examines how participants engage in entangled resistance—tactically negotiating visibility algorithms while remaining embedded within platform infrastructures. Rather than rejecting platforms, City Walk participants leverage them to perform affective spatial storytelling, explore non-recommended routes, and archive marginal spaces. These practices are conceptually situated within the literature on algorithmic resistance, everyday spatial tactics, and critical cartography. While some City Walk content is commodified through lifestyle aesthetics and platform branding, others sustain oppositional potential through semantic drift and infrastructural appropriation. By reframing City Walk as a counter-cartographic practice situated within the logics of platform urbanism, this article contributes to broader debates on digital spatial agency, mediated urban practices, and the politics of algorithmically curated visibility.

In the first half of 2020, millions of people were subjected to drastic restrictions aimed at limiting the spread of the Covid-19 disease. Austria, France and Poland have implemented a lockdown to varying degrees and for varying lengths of time. This is an unprecedented situation in Europe: until now, even in times of war, curfew measures have never been applied 24 h a day. The research presented in this article was carried out in real time, in April and May 2020, with the help of urban planning students from three countries. Its objective is to observe the interaction between these measures and the urban space in two dimensions. On the one hand, we analyse the impact of these measures on the urban space and on the spatial practices of the inhabitants. On the other hand, we examine the conditions which different types of urban and rural space have provided for the inhabitants experiencing confinement. This empirical study leads to a discussion and recommendation for the town planners of the future.

This article presents an excerpt from a master’s research in which the proposal was to conceptualize the practice of theatrical habitation, performed by the Teatro Público group (Belo Horizonte/MG), as both process and scenic proposition. For this purpose, the authors start from the aesthetics related to walking in order to map the theoretical field of this project, and then use other spatial practices analogous to theatrical habitation to expose their similarities and differences that justify the choice of a new nomenclature. Finally, some of the characteristics of this practice are outlined, such as the coexistence in extended temporality, as a way to think about inhabiting as an aesthetics of the public.

Drawing on the politicised history of Public Conveniences in England since the 19th century, this paper traces the socio-political motives for their provision and for their gradual withdrawal in recent decades. It discusses the effects these developments have had on public mobility, and the socio-political complexity these infrastructures pose to city-making agendas. In particular, the essay highlights the notions of stigma associated with these spaces in relation to gender, body-politics and control, which led to a lack of political interest in their provision and a pattern of closures that began in the Thatcher era and has continued through later times of economic austerity. To unfold these arguments, the essay examines a series of initiatives put forward to reclaim for public use a derelict toilet in the centre of London: from the concept of an interactive site-specific intervention to raise awareness of its closure, to a campaign for its listing as an Asset of Community Value, to contest its privatisation. This case study is used to address the spatial stigma that public toilets carry as a contested locus of public sanitation and, furthermore, to highlight important questions surrounding their provision in the context of contemporary citizen-driven urban agendas. To articulate this argument, the case study exemplifies how critical spatial practices can operate as a form of pedagogical urban praxis for awareness-raising and citizen engagement, advancing a Lefebvrian ‘right to the city’ against hegemonic neoliberal agendas. 以19世纪以来英国公共厕所的政治化历史为鉴，本文追溯了近几十年来公共厕所提供及其逐渐退出的社会政治动机。本文探讨了这些发展对公众出行的影响，以及这些基础设施给城市建设议程造成的社会政治复杂性。特别是，本文凸显了与这些空间相关的，性别、身体政治和控制方面的污名概念，这导致了对这些空间的提供缺乏政治兴趣，以及始于撒切尔时代并持续到后来经济紧缩时期的关闭。为了展开这些论点，本文研究了一系列倡议，这些倡议提出改造伦敦市中心一个废弃的厕所以供公众使用，其中包括针对特定地点的互动干预、以引起对其关闭的关注的概念，以及一场主张将其列为有社区价值的资产、以质疑其私有化的运动。这一案例研究旨在解决公共厕所作为争议性公共卫生场所承受的空间污名，并进一步突出在当代公民驱动的城市议程背景下、其提供所产生的重要问题。为了阐明这一论点，本案例研究举例说明了批判性空间实践如何作为一种提高认识和公民参与的教学城市实践形式，推进列斐伏尔 (Lefebvrian) 所提出的“城市权”，从而反对新自由主义的霸权主义议程。

Research framework: In this article, the case study is part of a research on parity at home and commissioned by a training institute. By parity, we mean the ability to share the burdens of domestic work fairly (not only household tasks) and to take part in decision-making. The objective of this research is to identify the competences of the couples surveyed, i.e. what constitutes a resource for them. It aims to obtain accounts of changes (childbirth, marriage, divorce, re-marriage, moving) by seeking to know if this is an event that changes something.Objectives: The objective of this article is to identify the gendered aging of a heterosexual, elderly, remarried couple, owners of a main house and second homes, and to understand how they make the space theirs.Methodology: This research puts together a monography of couples. Aiming to make respondents’ investigators of their own lives, and to grasp their privacy without actually being there, the interviewees each constitute a corpus of photographs that they select and comment on by titling and adding a brief note. The corpus is thus a support for an individual interview, which can be carried on with the surveyed couple.Results: This corpus bears witness to the mobilities within the homes of the respondents and reveals what is really a “home”. It delimits the private and intimate spaces from the shared spaces of co-habitation, which is expressed in a dual form. The case of an elderly couple, remarried for forty-six years, allows us to explore ways in which individuality is preserved.Conclusion: The case of this remarried elderly couple shows gendered ways of doing things and saying that gives advantage to female domestic work. It features an expanded self, exposes and displays the assertion of financial and moral autonomy.Contribution: The exploration of the home shows the need for “huts” (Macé, 2019) or to encabanate oneself (Bachelart, 2012) in order to be “at home”, strengthening the link between property and individuation, and showing the ever-renewed test of strength for/of self-assertion.

There is an ongoing movement towards situated and relational, rather than static and transcendental, understandings of research ethics within Geography. Yet this tendency has not yet succeeded in destabilising a priori judgements of ethnographic engagements with unlawful spatial practices. As such, many socially and politically important projects are either sidelined or eschewed for fear of liability or complicity. In cases where ethnography is deployed, primarily in the field of participatory action research, the tensions between ethics and legality are not often explicitly engaged with. We want to suggest here, in light of increasing interest amongst geographers in “subversive” spatial practices, that ethnographies of illegality raise a range of important ethical concerns for research practices that also inform broader understandings of situated ethical frameworks. In this vein, the authors draw on past and ongoing ethnographic experiences into illicit spatial practices (or what criminologists have termed “edge ethnographies”) to think through the entire process of research engagement – from planning to data retention – with consideration to the incommensurable relationship between ethics and law where we take situated ethics seriously.

Space and time, which should properly be taken conjointly, are both communicatively produced and created with certain contextual perspectives—they are not independent physical entities. The standpoint of production makes the relationship between space and time comprehensible. They can either be mental-subjective , physical-objective , or social-intersubjective . Social and intersubjective (or E-series ) spacetime might shed new light on biological thinking. For general readers, this paper provides a clue regarding an alternative conceptualization of spacetime based on biology.