Spatial practices cannot be read apart from social context

Evidence

The grid of spatial practices can tell us nothing important by itself. To suppose so would be to accept the idea that there is some universal spatial language independent of social practices. Spatial Individual spaces and times in social life 223 practices derive their efficacy in social life only through the structure of social relations within which they come into play. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1402

Categorization

• XREF: Raises the familiar poststructuralist caution about universal languages; connects to the reader’s Jameson/postmodernism comparison of how space is periodized. — connects to: When aesthetic judgment favors space over time, spatial practices dominate social action. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1300; Social media constitutes a contextual monoculture that destroys meaning-bearing spatial context — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 548; Space is not freedom but permanent construction through contested social interactions (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Space is not freedom but permanent construction through contested social interactions #expands (0.90)
• Social media constitutes a contextual monoculture that destroys meaning-bearing spatial context #corroborates (0.82) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 548
• Social media content lacks the spatial and temporal context real understanding requires. #corroborates (0.80) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 527
• Reading present cultural concepts only through their genealogy misses spatial and temporal context #expands (0.77) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3027
• Social distance maintained by etiquette or replaced by spatial segregation undergirds hierarchy #exemplifies (0.75)
• Institutionalized space appropriation produces territorially bounded social solidarity #exemplifies (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1395
• Concepts formed without social context restrict and confine knowledge #corroborates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 738
• Mobility disparity defines the occupation’s spatial apartheid #exemplifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 636
• Stratification systems necessarily create social and spatial distance mechanisms #exemplifies (0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 654
• Reintroducing context does not necessarily align a network with physical place. #qualifies (0.72) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 582