About this Research Topic
We welcome new contributions to this field of knowledge that aim to explore how ‘space’ can shape people’s everyday lives in different ways, and how people’s lives shape “space”. We welcome theoretical and empirical papers drawing from both qualitative and quantitative research on the following or related topics:
• Organizational factors affecting new spaces
• Household dynamics and new spaces
• Problematizing the boundaries between private and public spaces
• Migration and transnational spaces
• Our memories and imaginative spaces
• Quality of relations and emotional spaces
• Social media and non-physical spaces
• Theoretical approaches to social spaces
• How collective issues (t.e.x a pandemic) influence social spaces
The contributors to this collection of peer-reviewed articles are encouraged to pay nuanced attention to digital, institutional or professional, intimate or private spaces inhabited by social actors in their everyday lives. The focus could fall on how the gendered and cultural dynamics of spaces become fluid or attain new boundaries through social actors’ interactions, or how different spatial areas overlap or merge (if at all). Moreover, this can be achieved by exploring the links between emotions and mobility, relational closeness and distance, or time/temporality and location. However, analyses of space don’t have to be limited to merely public, material or physical elements but should reflect on how the spatial can become social and vice versa (support communities and classrooms; kin and family rituals such as marriages; spaces of escapism or online ‘socializing’).
We welcome also theoretical and empirical papers drawing from both qualitative and quantitative research, with a particular interest in digital technologies (e.g. analyses of online platforms Instagram, Twitter or how people use apps in the exploration of both professional and intimate spaces, for dating, for wellbeing, or for work).
Keywords: social distance, social isolation, virus, feeling loss, quantitative research, Space, Emotions, Gender, Everyday life, Culture, Qualitative Research
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.