Kurzfassung The study analyses the characteristic features of energy landscapes. By the example of the German energy transition, it is discussed in how far they are an expression of social inequality ...and injustice. Based on a review of the literature on socio-technical and socio-ecological dimensions of energy landscapes, the central findings will be integrated into Henri Lefebvre's concept “The Production of Space”. Thereby, those social spaces are identified which are constructed by the powerful actors of the energy transition on the basis of neoliberal spatial concepts and which become the origins of unequal and unjust energy landscapes. Furthermore, it will be discussed whether and how energy landscapes can be distinguished from other landscapes and where these boundaries run when the representative and discursive features of energy landscapes are brought to the fore. The study reveals that Lefebvre's spatial concept is well suited to expose the powerfully enforced and socially unbalanced territorial structures of energy landscapes and to distinguish them from the symbolic, emotional, and idealistic reference points that arise from the everyday life in these landscapes. It becomes clear that infrastructure measures for climate protection only appear socially viable if the production of sustainable energy landscapes is understood as the production of a discourse about sustainability, equality, and justice. Zusammenfassung Im Rahmen der Studie werden die charakteristischen Eigenschaften von Energielandschaften analysiert und dahingehend erörtert, wie sie am Beispiel der deutschen Energiewende Ausdruck gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheiten und Ungerechtigkeiten sind. Auf Basis eines Literatur-Reviews zu den soziotechnischen und sozioökologischen Dimensionen von Energielandschaften werden hierzu die zentralen Befunde in das von Henri Lefebvre entwickelte Konzept „Die Produktion des Raumes“ eingeordnet. Dadurch ist es möglich, jene sozialen Räume zu identifizieren, die von den machtvollen Akteuren der Energiewende auf Basis neoliberaler Raumkonzepte konstruiert und zu Ausgangspunkten ungleicher und ungerechter Energielandschaften werden. Des Weiteren soll erörtert werden, ob und wie Energielandschaften von anderen Landschaften abgegrenzt werden können und wo diese Grenzen verlaufen, wenn die repräsentativen und diskursiven Merkmale von Energielandschaften in den Vordergrund gerückt werden. Die Studie offenbart, dass Lefebvres raumtheoretisches Konzept sich gut dazu eignet, die mit Macht durchsetzten und sozial unausgewogenen territorialen Strukturen von Energielandschaften freizulegen und von den symbolischen, emotionalen und ideellen Bezugspunkten, die sich aus dem Leben der Menschen in diesen Landschaften ergeben, zu unterscheiden. Darüber hinaus wird deutlich, dass Infrastrukturmaßnahmen zum Klimaschutz nur dann gesellschaftlich tragfähig erscheinen, wenn die Produktion nachhaltiger Energielandschaften zuallererst als Produktion eines Diskurses um Nachhaltigkeit, Gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit begriffen wird.
Workplace surveillance is traditionally conceived of as a dyadic process, with an observer and an observee. In this paper, I discuss the implications of an emerging form of workplace surveillance: ...surveillance with an algorithmic, as opposed to human, observer. Situated within the on-demand food-delivery context, I draw upon Henri Lefebvre’s spatial triad to provide in-depth conceptual examination of how platforms rely on conceived space, namely the virtual reality generated by data capture, while neglecting perceived and lived space in the form of the material embodied reality of workers. This paper offers a two-fold contribution. First, it applies Henri Lefebvre’s spatial triad to the techno-centric digital cartography used by platform-mediated organisations, assessing spatial power dynamics and opportunities for resistance. Second, this paper advances organisational research into workplace surveillance in situations where the observer and decision-maker can be a non-human agent.
Henri Lefebvre Merrifield, Andy
2006., 2006, 20131018, 2013, 2013-10-18, 20060101
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Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre is one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century. This accessible and innovative introduction to the work of Lefebvre combines ...biography and theory in a critical assessment of the dynamics of Lefebvre's character, thought, and times. Exploring key Lefebvrian concepts, Andy Merrifield demonstrates the evolution of Lefebvre's philosophy, while stressing the way his long and adventurous life of ideas and political engagement live on as an enduring and inspiring interrelated whole.
Abstract in the present article it will be analysed and associated the concepts of nature, body and potency based on Spinoza and Marx, from this point it will be suggest that the act of man' ...exteriorization (and his essence) it's not only social, but also productive in the sense of praxis and activity of itself and of social. In this sense, this creative act is based in the contemporary world in the daily experience of inhabit the city, the one, under capitalism, is been reduced to an habitat'aesthetic, by process of material and subjective domination which pretend the social practices' standardization, separating man's potency, inverting the affective order and, by conclusion, separating corporality and the cognitive sphere of men. Every day life'aesthetic; potency; body; praxis; affectivity Los Manuscritos de economía y filosofía de Marx escritos en 1844 en su estadía en París, pero publicados recién en 1932, son textos usualmente relegados por tratarse aún de la etapa de juventud del pensamiento del alemán, que no tendrían el aparataje científico que adquiriría en sus escritos de madurez, como lo es El Capital. Se podría decir que en mayor o menor medida, la vida cotidiana siempre es objeto de pensamiento, pero desde un prisma no filosófico, es decir, estando en un constante desplazamiento.
Henri Lefebvre Butler, Chris
2012, 20121012, 2012-10-12
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While certain aspects of Henri Lefebvre's writings have been examined extensively within the disciplines of geography, social theory, urban planning and cultural studies, there has been no ...comprehensive consideration of his work within legal studies. Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City provides the first serious analysis of the relevance and importance of this significant thinker for the study of law and state power. Introducing Lefebvre to a legal audience, this book identifies the central themes that run through his work, including his unorthodox, humanist approach to Marxist theory, his sociological and methodological contributions to the study of everyday life and his theory of the production of space. These elements of Lefebvre's thought are explored through detailed investigations of the relationships between law, legal form and processes of abstraction; the spatial dimensions of neoliberal configurations of state power; the political and aesthetic aspects of the administrative ordering of everyday life; and the 'right to the city' as the basis for asserting new forms of spatial citizenship. Chris Butler argues that Lefebvre's theoretical categories suggest a way for critical legal scholars to conceptualise law and state power as continually shaped by political struggles over the inhabitance of space. This book is a vital resource for students and researchers in law, sociology, geography and politics, and all readers interested in the application of Lefebvre's social theory to specific legal and political contexts.
Henri Lefebvre talked of the “right to the city” alongside a right to information. As the urban environment becomes increasingly layered by digital representation, Lefebvre's broader theory warrants ...application to the digital age. Through considering what is entailed by the urbanization of information, this paper examines the problems and implications of any “informational right to the city”. In directing Tony Benn's five questions of power towards Google, arguably the world's most powerful mediator of information, this paper exposes processes that occur when geographic information is mediated by powerful digital monopolies. We argue that Google currently occupies a dominant share of any informational right to the city. In the spirit of Benn's final question—“How do we get rid of you?”—the paper seeks to apply post‐political theory in exploring a path to the possibility of more just information geographies.
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Henri Lefebvre parle d'un “droit à la ville” comme allant de pair avec le droit à l'information. Alors que de plus en plus de représentations numériques abstraites se superposent à l'environnement urbain, la théorie générale de Lefebvre mérite d'être appliquée à l'ère du numérique. En se penchant sur les enjeux de l'urbanisation de l'information, cet article analyse les difficultés et les implications d'un “droit informationnel à la ville”. Après avoir posé à Google, le vecteur d'information le plus puissant du monde, les cinq questions que Tony Benn avait adressées aux détenteurs de pouvoir, le texte expose les processus dérivant de l'intermédiation de l'information géographique par de puissants monopoles numériques. Il montre que Google occupe actuellement une position dominante dans tout droit informationnel à la ville. Dans l'esprit de la question finale de Benn—“Comment peut‐on se débarrasser de vous?”—cet article vise à appliquer la théorie post‐politique afin d'explorer les voies vers des géographies informationnelles plus équitables.
This article examines rhythmanalysis within the context of Henri Lefebvre’s critique of everyday life and identifies gaps in his framework from the vantage point of intersectional feminist ...scholarship. Intersectional rhythmanalysis, I argue, provides a framework through which to conceptualize the braiding together of rhythms, social categories of difference, and power on non-essentialist bases. I interweave findings from doctoral research on migrant farmworker rhythms in rural southern Ontario, Canada. The article argues that rhythms help produce unequal subject positions of migrants in Canada, yet also represent lived uses of space and times which permit transgressions of racial, gender, and class boundaries.
When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanization. Today, when this tendency has become reality, ...Lefebvre’s ideas on everyday life, production of space, rhythmanalysis and the right to the city are indispensable for the understanding of urbanization processes at every scale of social practice. This volume is the first to develop Lefebvre’s concepts in social research and architecture by focusing on urban conjunctures in Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dhaka, Hong Kong, London, New Orleans, Nowa Huta, Paris, Toronto, São Paulo, Sarajevo, as well as in Mexico and Switzerland. With contributions by historians and theorists of architecture and urbanism, geographers, sociologists, political and cultural scientists, Urban Revolution Now reveals the multiplicity of processes of urbanization and the variety of their patterns and actors around the globe.
Åukasz Stanek is a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Manchester, UK; Christian Schmid is Professor of Sociology at the School of Architecture, ETH Zürich, Switzerland and Ãkos Moravánszky is Professor of Architecture, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Contents: Introduction: theory, not method - thinking with Lefebvre, Christian Schmid, Åukasz Stanek and Ãkos Moravánszky. Part I On Complete Urbanization: The trouble with Henri: urban research and the theory of the production of space, Christian Schmid; During the urban revolution - conjunctures on the streets of Dhaka, Elisa T. Bertuzzo; Where Lefebvre meets the East: urbanization in Hong Kong, Wing-Shing Tang; Henri Lefebvre and ’colonization’: from reinterpretation to research, Stefan Kipfer and Kanishka Goonewardena. Part II Contradictions of Abstract Space: Plan Puebla Panama: the violence of abstract space, Japhy Wilson; ’Greater Paris’: urbanization but no urbanity - how Lefebvre predicted our metropolitan future, Jean-Pierre Garnier; The production of urban competitiveness: modelling 22@Barcelona, Greig Charnock and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz; Reconstructing New Orleans and the right to the city, M. Christine Boyer. Part III Everyday Architectures: Ground exploration: producing everyday life at the South Bank, 1948-1951, Nick Beech; The space of the square: a Lefebvrean archaeology of Budapest, Ãkos Moravánszky; The archi-texture of power: an inquiry into the spatial textures of post-socialist Sarajevo, Mejrema Zatri; For difference ’in and through’ São Paulo: the regressive-progressive method, Fraya Frehse. Part IV Urban Society and its Projects: Architectural project and the agency of representation: the case of Nowa Huta, Poland, Åukasz Stanek; The debate about Berlin Tempelhof Airport, or: a Lefebvrean critique of recent debates about affect in geography, Ulrich Best; Novi Beograd: reinventing Utopia, Ljiljana Blagojevi; Lefebvrean vaguenesses: going beyond diversion in the production of new spaces, Jan Lilliendahl Larsen. Index.
This article rethinks processes and practices of urban temporariness in a more agile, localised and context-specific way, where rhythms and dynamics of the everyday are clearly acknowledged. It ...discusses the directions of research required to theorise ‘temporary urbanisms’. To do so, three overlapping literatures are used: Lefebvrian conceptualisations of rhythms and the everyday; evolutionary analyses of path of change and path creation; and geographies of architecture. This article recognises that although temporariness is (evidently) a universal urban condition, diverse discursive and practical dynamics exist directing urban temporariness along particular channels and shaping space significantly while impacting people’s living environments.
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