Concept
Agency (sociology)
Publications associées (7)
Facets of Urban Co-Creation
Participation in the context of urban planning is growing in the urban and architectural processes of democratic cities. Urban co-creation means working with communities by integrating their needs, giving them the opportunity to collaborate in the transfor ...
Barcelona2023Social Representations of Mexico City Historic Center: Heritage and Controversial Memories
In this paper, we present the results of a research project that deals with the controversial memories of historic urban landscapes that have been designated as World Heritage sites by UNESCO. We observe - through the study of social representations of Mex ...
JOHANNES KEPLER UNIV, INST PAEDAGOGIK & PSYCHOLOGIE2020Hypertypes: From social bridges to an urbanism of aspirations, affordances and capabilities
Using multilayered individual massive data and geo-localization tracking, Computational Social Science and Social Physics attest the importance of face-to-face and place-to-place interactions in shaping human agency. The research suggests that collective a ...
2018Agency, gait and self-consciousness
Olaf Blanke, Oliver Alan Kannape
Agency is an important aspect of bodily self-consciousness, allowing us to separate own movements from those induced by the environment and to distinguish own movements from those of other agents. Unsurprisingly, theoretical frameworks for agency such as c ...
2012Pratiques sociales et transformations de l'espace
Vincent Kaufmann, Yves Pedrazzini, Jean-Claude Bolay
Here, the authors analyze the capacity of the social actors to transform the urban reality. ...
2004A geographical turn
The relevance of space in human life is increasing. The point of equilibrium between constraint and freedom has moved. Individuals have become actors of their own spatiality as well as of the spatiality of others. Social actors must develop an explicit com ...
2004La vie précipitée, violente, vite et vague: malandros, bandes et enfants de la rue
Intermediate report for the SNF. The authors reports on his work on the social actors of the "barrios" of Caracas, financed by a SNF Grant. ...
1991