The Transformation of Urban Space: Agency and Constraints in a Peripheral District in the Post-Industrial City of Madrid

Autor/inn/en	Rojo, Luisa Martín; Portillo, Cristina
Titel	The Transformation of Urban Space: Agency and Constraints in a Peripheral District in the Post-Industrial City of Madrid
Quelle	In: AILA Review, 28 (2015), S.72-102 (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-0213
DOI	10.1075/aila.28.04mar
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Urban Areas; Change; Sociolinguistics; Communication (Thought Transfer); Social Capital; Change Agents; Disadvantaged; Social Integration; Intercultural Communication; Multilingualism; Acculturation; Semiotics; Migration; Neighborhoods; Chinese; Semitic Languages; Signs; Language Usage; Spanish; Spain (Madrid) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Urban area; Stadtregion; Wandel; Soziolinguistik; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Sozialkapital; Soziale Integration; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Akkulturation; Semiotik; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; China; Chinesen; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Zeichensystem; Sprachgebrauch; Spanisch
Abstract	This paper draws attention to the ways in which spatial configurations operate as constitutive dimensions of sociolinguistic phenomena and vice versa; that is, the way in which communicative practices frame daily life and the broader urban reality. The paper presents an approach which integrates the study of Linguistic Landscapes, the dynamics of deterritorialisation/reterritorialisation, proposed by Deleuze and Guattari (1987), and Bourdieu's concept of social field. The paper shows that whilst there are possibilities of agency in urban space transformation, such opportunities are restricted by social agents' positioning in the different social fields (e.g. tourism vs. local commerce), and by their positioning in relation to the social processes of assimilation, integration, segregation or marginalization. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01