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DaphnéBengoa and LéoFabrizio, Fernand Pouillon et l'Algérie: Bâtir à hauteur d'hommes (Paris: Macula Éditions, 2019)
FadilaKettaf, La fabrique des espaces publics en Algérie: les places dans la ville d'Oran; conceptions, formes et usages (Paris: Harmattan, 2019)
AriaNakissa, The Anthropology of Islamic Law: Education, Ethics, and Legal Interpretation at Egypt's al-Azhar (Oxford, UK: Oxford Islamic Legal Studies, 2019)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2020
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Space, in the dictionary, is “a continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied” and “the dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move.” Those of us who are social scientists may recognize Henri Lefebvre's unitary theory of space in the dictionary definition, which seeks to capture physical, mental, and social “fields” constituting space: spatial practices, representations of space, and representational space (such as the opening and closing of airports, requiring that people queue for temperature scans, constructing stadiums and choosing names for them). If anything, the spread of coronavirus disease at the present moment draws the significance of space and tensions between different concepts of space to our immediate attention.
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