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  • In this article, I translate the analysis of the production of space as a social process into a processual methodology sensitive to its political aspects. This requires taking actors as well as the different socio-spatial logics into account. One of the main transformations since the 1970s - the historical period under scrutiny in the analysis of the refiguration of spaces - is that of re-scaling. This means that the relationship between socially meaningful geographic arenas (global/worldwide, national, regional, metropolitan, urban, local, bodily), and thus the (hierarchical) order of spatial scales as a whole, has been changing. In order to investigate the diachronic process of refiguration, I have therefore developed a multi-actor and multi-scalar approach. My methodological contribution starts from the inquiry into the socio-theoretical dimension of scale. I do so by asking what sociological analysis can learn from the (mostly geographical) scale debate, and, conversely, what a sociological contribution to this debate might look like. The empirical context from which this intervention stems is research on non-profit and non-governmental organizations in housing and asylum politics. Methodologically, two distinct approaches of social theory are discussed here respectively: that of Norbert ELIAS's figurational sociology, and that of Henri LEFEBVRE's theory of space. (xsd:string)
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  • 2021 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 10.17169/fqs-22.3.3763 ()
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  • Comparing Actors and Scales: Methodological Perspectives From a Political Sociology of the Refiguration of Spaces (xsd:string)
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  • In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 22, 2021, 3 (xsd:string)
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