ABSTRACT

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the implications of the digital permeation of the urban landscape for spatial justice. It draws on research into the use of urban space in social media posts to display and contest social status. The book suggests that despite easy access to social media technologies, rather than creating new and potentially disruptive forms of equality. It looks at spatial justice through the perspective of waste and borders, at different scales from the intimate and urban levels to the wider global and extra-terrestrial scales. The book details how property was confiscated and the region was transformed into Russian Kaliningrad. It explores women’s self-defence manuals, the politics and poetics of women’s self-defence. The book re-considers the definition through three elements: body, space, and movement.