The Materiality of Territorial Production - A Conceptual Discussion of Territoriality, Materiality and the Everyday Life of Public Space

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Abstract

This article brings together research on territoriality and actor-network theory in order to develop new ways of investigating the role of materiality and material design in the territorial power relations of urban public places. Using the public square as a main example, I suggest some new ways of conceptualizing the production and stabilization of territories in the everyday urban environment. Setting out from a brief outline of the history of territoriality research, I re-appropriate the traditional approaches from the viewpoint of actants rather than persons or institutions, suggesting a distinction between four different forms of territorial production. I then go on to conceptualize some material ways of stabilizing the effects of these territorial productions. Finally, I argue that public space can be seen as constituted by a territorial complexity, thus pointing to the relationship between materiality and public space, via territorial stabilization and production.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)437-453
JournalSpace and Culture
Volume10
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007

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The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015.
The record was previously connected to the following departments: Building Functions Analysis (011037000)

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Building Technologies

Free keywords

  • ANT
  • materiality
  • architectural theory
  • everyday life
  • territoriality
  • public space
  • urban design

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