The spatiality of social life: towards a transformative retheorisation.

Abstract

Contends that there is an essential 'spatiality' to social life which is occluded in conventional theorisations. Urges the need to construct a new, materialist understanding of 'social produced space' which was prefigured in a series of interventions within the French Marxist tradition by Henri Lefebvre. There is now a truly momentous convergence around many of Lefebvre's pivotal themes, a reapprochement which draws in and reworks both Marxian and non-Marxian social theory. -from Editors