Post-foundationalism departs from the assumption that there is no
ground, necessity, or objective rationale for human political existence
or action. The edited volume puts contemporary debates arising from the
"spatial turn" in cultural and social sciences in a dialogue with
post-foundational theories of space and place to devise
post-foundationalism as radical approach to urban studies. This approach
enables us to think about space not only as socially produced, but also
as crucially marked by conflict, radical negativity, and absence. The
contributors undertake a (re-)reading of key spatial and/or
post-foundational theorists to introduce their respective understandings
of politics and space, and offer examples of post-foundationalist
empirical analyses of urban protests, spatial occupation, and social
movements.