What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms, and libraries reify—or subvert�

Why is public space disappearing? Why is this disappearance important to democratic politics and how has it become an international phenomenon? Public spaces ar

Is Habermas’s concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and information have become incre

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This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizen