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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 What Sort of a Legal Space is a City? -- 2 Trajectories of Interstitial Landscapeness: A Conceptual Framework for Territorial Imagination and Action -- 3 Tent Cities: Interstitial Spaces of Survival -- 4 Spatial Justice in the Lawscape -- 5 Coming up for Air: Comfort, Conflict and the Air of the Megacity -- 6 Automobile Interstices: Driving and the In-Between Spaces of the City -- 7 Interstitial Space and the Transformation of Retail Building Types -- 8 Interim Users in Residual Spaces: An Inquiry Into the Career of a Pier on the Hudson Riverfront -- 9 The Urban Fringe as a Territorial Interstice: On Alpine Suburbs -- 10 Active Interstices: Urban Informality, the Tourist Gaze and Metamorphosis in South-East Asia

This book proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social formations that have remained outside of mainstream sociology. In particular, it reviews urban crowds, mediated publics, global masses, population, the sovereign people and the multitude and addresses the question: 'What is the building block of the social?', At the end of the 19th century, two famous predictions were advanced for the coming 20th century: while Le Bon prophesied that the coming century would have been the age of crowds, Tarde replied that the new century would have been the age of publics. Even in retrospect, it is not easy to tell who was right. This book proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social formations that have remained outside of mainstream sociology. In particular, it reviews urban crowds, mediated publics, global masses, population, the sovereign people and the multitude. By doing so, it questions the image of the individual and addresses the question: 'What is the building block of the social?'. Imitation, contagion, suggestion and other phenomena of circulation within multiplicities put the idea of the individual as the building block of the social under strain. The notions of transformation and phase transition are explored as possible alternative views

What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, the book is an exploration into how intervisibilities produce crucial sociotechnical and biopolitical effects.

The attempt by Arnason and Roberts to interpret Canetti's work in the context of social theory is taken here as the point of departure to investigate Canetti's view on the phenomenon of resistance. Resistance is explored in the context of Canetti's reflection on power and transformation. Further, it is argued that through his substantive concern for crowds (but also for packs, or small bands), an epistemological challenge emerges for social theory. Canetti gives us some precious insights on phenomena of ambiguous multiplicity, which are neither simple sums of separate individuals nor an ontologized Durkheimian collective. Not only this, he resolutely ventures towards the contingency at the foundation of social order, the 'just-thisness' of power, revealing its non-symbolic basis in gestures that impart affects. It is at this level that resistance can be best understood as a movement of liberation from the grip of power.

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction: The Stake of Territories -- 1. The State of Territory Under Globalization: Empire and the Politics of Reterritorialization -- 2. How the non-human turn challenges the social sciences: The case of environmental struggles at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France -- 3. Commercial drones and the territorialisation of the air: Towards an aero-volumetric understanding of power and territory -- 4. Inhabiting Together: Manure Contracts and Other Territorial Compositions Between Pastoralism and Agriculture in Western Burkina Faso -- 5. Territory Glimpsed Through Lache Eyes: A Tale of Non- Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Excursions in Liminal Space -- 6. Affirmatively reading deterritorialisation in urban space: An Aotearoa/New Zealand perspective -- 7. Rendering territory (in)visible: Approaching urban struggles through a socio-territorial lens -- 8. The Territorialisation of the Grocery Shopper: Eco-ethical asceticism and environmental nostalgia -- 9. The territories of music in public space: Scenes from Warsaw and Lisbon -- 10. Passage Territories: Reconstructing the Domestic Spatiality of an Indonesian Urban Kampung -- 11. Dodging rocks and baseball bats: Stories of territory, tourism and trespassing in Detroit neighborhoods -- Index.

The reactive character of social relations, though empirically pervasive, is analytically neglected. Yet, reaction seems a surprisingly useful category to make sense of the extensive environmental links of behaviour/action lying at the very junction of social phenomenology (the here-and-now) and social ecology (the elsewhere-at-other-times). To advance a deeper theorization of this category, we start by mobilizing Mauss's notion of 'counter-gift', elaborating on three interactionist properties (investments, rhythms and the psyche–society nexus) which make the moment of reaction pivotal. Next, we show how reactions are less deterministic than usually assumed, by examining a series of counterintuitive configurations where the action–reaction link is non-linear and circuitous. Since receptions and consequent responses to others' acts are determined by factors of speed and intensity, we then address both dromological and morphogenetic aspects of reaction processes. The last part of this article looks into war as a large-scale reactive formation, proposing that social interaction gets 'activated' mainly through mutual (and, not infrequently, adverse) replies among actors.