SFB 1199: Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition

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The SFB 1199 examines how processes of spatialization change under the global condition and how new spatial formats are produced by the actors underlying the condition while existing spatial for-mats are modified as well as merged into new spatial orders. In order to describe and explain these transformations, we have (initially) elaborated a terminology that allows us to distinguish between(1) the multilayered spatializations resulting from every kind of social interaction;(2) spatial formats, which are characterized by (at least medium-term) establishment/recurrence, institutionalization, (routine) performance, and intersubjective reflection, and which become established in a practice that involves imaginations (descriptions and visualizations); and(3) spatial orders, which are the outcome of negotiation processes involving differing spatial formats.These categories provide us with a heuristic and a descriptory terminology with which processes can be coherently described and explained despite being far from each other/diverging greatly in time and space as well as concerning different social domains such as politics, administration, religion, health, literature, science, consumption, migration, crime, the economy, and the culture industry.The SFB combines an empirically oriented, inductive approach with a conceptual and systematic orientation. In the different subprojects, we investigate a large number of spatial formats in multiple world-regional contexts and the transformation of spatial orders over a long period of time, beginning in the late 18th century. This combined approach and investigation act as the precondition for achieving the SFB’s two main goals:(1) a systematic description of spatial formats and(2) the development of a historical narrative explaining how spatial orders change in times of global respatialization.