ABSTRACT
The production of space is a contradictory process, whereby the relationship between society and space is mutually constitutive: the socio-spatial dialectic. Spatial re(con)figuration is dialectically implicated in processes of contestation; social practices that Henri Lefebvre documented at length in The Production of Space. Spaces of refuge can be seen as specific variants of the production of space; the number of refugees worldwide is in the millions, yet discussions about them in the public and academic realms largely “fall ‘outside’ the debates on ‘normal’ societies”. The social reproduction of urban space both informs and is informed by memories, understandings, and representations from diverse situated vantage points that collectively shape the perceived, conceived, and lived aspects of space. According to Manuel Castells, the relationship between space and society simultaneously expresses and performs the interests of the dominant class.
