TY - CHAP

T1 - Making Sociological Theories Come Alive

T2 - 17th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering 2020

AU - Kirschner, Ursula

N1 - Conference code: 17

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the medium film is able not only to challenge, but also to push toward further development of some of the basic assumptions in sociological spatial theories as used within cultural area research. In so doing, we wish to increase knowledge on a central epistemological question for the field of Spatial Turn, namely how field research, by using film and playing it back to the field, can be a vehicle for new methodology in making theories collectively come alive.The paper reflects on thoughts about Frontier Zones developed from the interpretations of space and its history as presented by students of cultural studies. The students’ interpretations are according to the theory of memory by Aleida Assman, to the understanding of the structure of power by Michel Foucault, and to the symbolic power and the habitus of the place by Pierre Bourdieu. In this sense, the concept of Frontier Zones contributes in two directions: in the practical experiments that seek to highlight and read the Frontier Zones that are expressed in the urban dynamics as well as to highlight the Frontier Zones between areas of knowledge seeking to understand and redefine them. The perception of the Frontier Zones allows us to recognize the levels of belonging, diversity and composition.

AB - The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the medium film is able not only to challenge, but also to push toward further development of some of the basic assumptions in sociological spatial theories as used within cultural area research. In so doing, we wish to increase knowledge on a central epistemological question for the field of Spatial Turn, namely how field research, by using film and playing it back to the field, can be a vehicle for new methodology in making theories collectively come alive.The paper reflects on thoughts about Frontier Zones developed from the interpretations of space and its history as presented by students of cultural studies. The students’ interpretations are according to the theory of memory by Aleida Assman, to the understanding of the structure of power by Michel Foucault, and to the symbolic power and the habitus of the place by Pierre Bourdieu. In this sense, the concept of Frontier Zones contributes in two directions: in the practical experiments that seek to highlight and read the Frontier Zones that are expressed in the urban dynamics as well as to highlight the Frontier Zones between areas of knowledge seeking to understand and redefine them. The perception of the Frontier Zones allows us to recognize the levels of belonging, diversity and composition.

KW - Culture and Space

KW - Collective memory

KW - erception of urban space

KW - Medium film for making theories come alive

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094131398&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-60816-3_17

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-60816-3_17

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-3-030-60815-6

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

SP - 148

EP - 157

BT - Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering - 17th International Conference, CDVE 2020, Proceedings

A2 - Luo, Yuhua

PB - Springer

CY - Cham

Y2 - 25 October 2020 through 28 October 2020

ER -