Peter Dirksmeier, Berlin: Urbaner Raum und Inklusion – zu einer
Paradoxie der Moderne
Urban space and
inclusion: a paradox of modernity
Cities can be understood as a mechanism which has organized inclusion and exclusion in society from the ancient
to the modern world. The article conceptualises
an alternative understanding of cities
as places of concentrated communication and multiple opportunities
for inclusion, in deliberate contrast to ontological approaches to cities as socio-spatial units. Using BourdieuÕs
theory of praxis (objectification of social practice) to demonstrate how the concentration
of opportunities for inclusion in urban space can be seen
as a reason for exclusion. The paper supports the hypothesis that the concentration
of opportunities for inclusion is responsible
for exclusion in cities, pinpointing a gap in contemporary urban geographical theory.
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