The Spatiality of Social Life: Towards a Transformative Retheorisation

Tenacious layers of mystification have recently begun to be peeled away from our understanding of the spatiality of social life, from the ways in which we account for and act upon the socially-produced geographical configurations and spatial relations which give material form and expression to society. This process of critical reinterpretation is revealing what has been obscured in both social and spatial theory and in day-to-day practice: that spatiality situates social life in an active arena where purposeful human agency jostles problematically with tendential social determinations to shape everyday activity, particularise social change, and etch into place the course of time and the making of history.