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Spatial Appropriation

Spatial Appropriation is a theoretical construct within the study of spatial practices that denotes the process by which individuals or groups actively invest spaces with meaning, agency, and identity through embodied, often subversive, use, thereby transforming abstract or prescribed spatial arrangements into lived, socially contested environments.

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2017–2026

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Spatial Phantasmagoria

André Jansson · European Journal of Communication · 2002 · 152 citations

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Teenagers, Territory and the Appropriation of Space

Herb Childress · Childhood · 2004 · 129 citations

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The new enclosure: the appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain

Heather Whiteside · Urban Geography · 2019 · 113 citations

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The Visibility and Invisibility of Migrant Faith in the City: Diaspora Religion and the Politics of Emplacement of Afro-Christian Churches

David Garbin · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies · 2013 · 104 citations

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Homing: a category for research on space appropriation and ‘home-oriented’ mobilities

Paolo Boccagni · Mobilities · 2022 · 99 citations · Full text

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Authors

103

  1. AJ
    André Jansson

    Karlstad University, Sweden

    2 publications · 169 citations

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  2. JA
    Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez

    University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 68 citations

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  3. AM
    Alessandro Melis

    University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 68 citations

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  4. MK
    Mikko Kyrönviita

    Tampere University, Finland

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  5. MW
    Maxime Wolfe

    1 publications · 24 citations

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Institutions

71

  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    53 citations

  2. University of Utah

    Salt Lake City, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    77 citations

  3. University of Portsmouth

    Portsmouth, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    204 citations

  4. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    65 citations

  5. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  6. New York University

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    39 citations

  7. Griffith University

    Brisbane, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  8. European Forest Institute

    Joensuu, Finland

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    160 citations

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Venues

  1. Cities

    2 publications · 87 citations

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  2. Space and Polity

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  4. City

    2 publications · 45 citations

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  5. European Planning Studies

    2 publications · 43 citations

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