Annelie Ramsbrock (Univ. of Greifswald), Ronny Grundig, Laura Haßler, Elisabeth Kimmerle, Annalisa Martin, and Juliane Röleke (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam) (Web)

Time: 06.-07.10.2022
Venue: Leibniz Centre of Contemporary History Potsdam

In the course of the ‘spatial turn’, research recognised spaces as socially produced (but nonetheless materialised), capable of much more than just housing people, animals or things. Spaces influence actions and behaviours and are at the same time the result of them, because they are circumscribed by them, arranged and given meaning. Within the discipline of history, such a social constructivist conception of space has so far been used primarily to focus on nation-based spaces, urban planning concepts or transport routes. Ordinary everyday practices, patterns of social relations or personal experiences, on the other hand, have only been marginally examined in terms of their relation to and dependence on space. Work that connects processes of subjectification to how space is experienced is also largely still to be done.

Important impulses for such a perspective on space come from gender studies. The field has long been able to show, across epochs, that conflicts over space have been fought out decisively within gender relations, because gender-related opportunities for social participation correspond to gender-specific allocations of space (private and public). The realisation that gender and space are not categories that can be thought of independently of each other, but that they condition and confirm each other, has so far only to a limited extent been historicised within contemporary history and applied to the history of everyday life. Read more and source … (Web)

Panels

• Disciplinary Spaces
• Labour and Space
• Spaces of (Queer) Appropriation
• Space and Leisure
• Contested Spaces