CRC 1265/2: Knowledge and Goods II: Communicative Actions of Consumers and Intermediaries (SP A03)

The subproject investigates how and why spatial knowledge is unequally distributed among actors within the commodity chain and along material infrastructures. In the second funding period, contrasting and diverging spatial arrangements in Nairobi and Singapore are analyzed. In relation to spatial conflicts, the focus is placed on different logics of space, e.g. between the logic of boundary closure in territorial spaces (districts) and the logic of boundary opening on the level of trajectorial spaces (commodity chains) at points of market withdrawal (e.g. stores, food stalls). The results will offer insights into how refiguration actually unfolds by drawing on the example of the spatial knowledge involved in interactions between consumers and intermediaries (e.g., grocers, food stall operators) in different spatial arrangements.