Following a consideration of the impact of the late twentieth-century spatial turn on the study of religion by geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and religious studies scholars, two trends are distinguished: the poetics of place and the sacred; and politics, religion, and the contestation of space. Discussion of these reveals substantially different approaches to religion, space, and place—one phenomenological, the other social constructivist. The spatial turn has been extremely fruitful for research on religion, bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines, and connecting not only to traditional areas such as sacred space and pilgrimage, but to new ones such as embodiment, gender, practice and religious-secular engagements.
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Religion, Space, and Place
The Spatial Turn in Research on Religion
Kim Knott
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 29–43 (15 total)
Chong-ro
A Space of Belonging for Young Gay Men in Seoul
Elias Alexander
outside cultural norms (Marchbank and Myrdahl 2019). For these youth, the importance of space and place in solidifying a sense of belonging cannot be underestimated ( Muir and Gannon 2016 ). The purpose of this article is to evaluate how Chong-ro 1 (one
Boundary Plants, the Social Production of Space, and Vegetative Agency in Agrarian Societies
Michael Sheridan
-making get tangled up in boundary plants. Foregrounding the Background: The Spatial Turn In the 1990s a new approach to space and place emerged in the social sciences in the wake of post-Cold War geopolitical destabilization. The congruencies of peoples and
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 29–49 (21 total)
Introduction
Religious Plurality, Interreligious Pluralism, and Spatialities of Religious Difference
Jeremy F. Walton and Neena Mahadev
demand to be heard in relation to the spaces and places that are their crucibles. Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank the CETREN Transregional Research Network at the University of Göttingen for supporting the conference entitled
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 81–91 (11 total)
Ocean Thinking
The Work of Ocean Sciences, Scientists, and Technologies in Producing the Sea as Space
Susannah Crockford
Abstract
How do scientists produce the ocean as space through their work and words? In this article, I examine how the techniques and tools of oceanographers constitute ocean science. Bringing theoretical literature from science and technology studies on how scientists “do” science into conversation with fine-grained ethnographic and sociological accounts of scientists in the field, I explore how ocean science is made, produced, and negotiated. Within this central concern, the technologies used to obtain data draw particular focus. Juxtaposed with this literature is a corpus by ocean scientists about their own work as well as interview data from original research. Examining the differences between scientists’ self-descriptions and analyses of them by social scientists leads to a productive exploration of how ocean science is constituted and how this work delineates the ocean as a form of striated space. This corpus of literature is placed in the context of climate change in the final section.
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 64–81 (18 total)
Introduction
Understanding Mobilities in a Dangerous World
Gail Adams-Hutcheson, Holly Thorpe, and Catharine Coleborne
strengths of sociocultural geography, sociology, sports studies, and aid and development studies and practices to critically rethink mobilities in a “dangerous world.” Thinking about mobilities at different scales, spaces, and places within a “dangerous
(Un)seen Seas
Technological Mediation, Oceanic Imaginaries, and Future Depths
Stephanie Ratté
Abstract
Remote technologies and digitally mediated representations now serve as a central mode of interaction with hard-to-reach sea spaces and places. This article reviews the literature on varied scholarly engagements with the sea and on the oceanic application of technologies—among them geographic information systems, remotely operated vehicles, and autonomous underwater vehicles—that allow people to envision and engage with deep and distant oceanic spaces. I focus on the extension of a digital and disembodied human presence in the oceans and the persistence of frontier fictions, in which the sea figures as a site of future-oriented possibilities. Finally, I ask what the emphasis on “seeing” through technological mediation means for how we imagine vast spaces, and consider how these elements of the oceanic imaginary can be productively complicated by drawing attention to the materiality of the oceans and the scalar politics of dynamic spaces.
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 141–157 (17 total)
Jewish Dating or Niche-making?
A Topographical Representation of Youth Culture
Alina Gromova
In this article I am approaching the topic of Jewish dating among the young Russian-speaking Jews who live in Berlin. Using the analytical concept of space and applying grounded theory, I am presenting data I collected in 2010 using the methods of ethnographic interviews and participant observation. The article is organised around three main questions. Firstly, I am interested in the motivation of my interviewees, who are generally children of inter-ethnic and inter-religious couples, to find a solely Jewish partner. Secondly, I am asking for existing strategies applied within a relatively small Jewish community of around thirty to fifty thousand in Berlin in order to find a Jewish partner. Thirdly, I am looking for the concrete spaces and places used or constructed for the purpose of finding a Jewish girlfriend or boyfriend. Beside these empirical results, I am introducing the theoretical idea of Jewish niches, which is discussed against the background of 'Jewish space' as promulgated by Diana Pinto.
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 11–25 (14 total)
Editorial
South to a New Place
Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith
In 1971 Albert Murray published South To A Very Old Place. Commissioned by the editor of Harper’s magazine, Willie Morris, to write about ‘home’ in a series of articles, the African American writer produced much more: South To A Very Old Place is memoir, travelogue, social commentary. Orchestrated as a jazz and blues composition, it is a meditation on the American South. Taking his title as our starting point, in this issue of Critical Survey we have gathered contributors who continue the work of critically and creatively mapping the American South, a region that exasperates as it inspires definition(s). Murray’s blues forms are open-ended and improvised so the blues metaphor and the jazz form are key in a collection called ‘South To A New Place’. It begins to chart connections with ‘other’ Souths in ways that open up spaces and places from which we might read the South as a site of exchange – the South of Italy in Michael Kreyling’s essay; the South as shaped and commodified by the best-selling magazine Southern Living in Amy Elias’s essay; and the literary South of Walker Percy and Richard Ford’s making in Martyn Bone’s essay, for example.
About the Cover Image
Jonathan A. Allan, Chris Haywood, and Frank G. Karioris
issue will include a different image that is reflective of the journal or perhaps of a particular article in the issue. One goal behind this practice is to promote spaces and places that may be unknown to scholars working in the field; as such, we will
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Other
- Pages:
- 13 (1 total)