Trajectories, Networks and Places of Disparate Infrastructures: Spatial Figures, Attitudes and Social Inequalities (A06*)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 290045248

This new subproject investigates to what extent everyday-life experiences of spatial environments in relation to central infrastructures have an impact on attitudes towards social justice and issues connected to redistribution, as well as on assessments of existing inequalities, which are increasingly polarized and therefore seem to drive refiguration processes. Looking specifically at respondents’ places of residence and work, the project analyzes relationships, interconnections and overlaps between these places using SOEP data and external geospatial data. It thereby provides valuable insights into the relationship between space and social inequality und explores the role of spatial figures and processes of refiguration related to socio-spatial polarizations with reference to the normative knowledge of space.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1265: Re-Figuration of Spaces
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Berlin
• Project Heads: Dr. Jan Goebel; Maria Norkus