Space is not freedom but permanent construction through contested social interactions

Evidence

Migration produces tensions because it confronts those nominally “in possession” of a space with those now staking their own claims to that space. For this reason, we can follow Doreen Massey in noting that space, even when seemingly holding out the promise of liberty, is not a site of romantic freedom but permanently under construction through social interactions marked by plurality and difference. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 267

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• XREF: Doreen Massey’s relational space thesis; connects to reader’s work on how Hamid and Naqvi stage contested urban space in New York.