TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT AS A PRACTICE OF REPRODUCTION OF THE SOCIAL SPACE. TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT IN THE SPHERE OF SOCIAL-SPATIAL PLANNING, SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND CONTROL

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https://doi.org/10.46991/BYSU:F/2024.15.1.073

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social space, engagement, socio-spatial planning, spatial organization, spatial control, territorial management

Abstract

Interactions between society and social spaces due to the continuous increase in the complexity of social relations are subjected to permanent reinterpretations. In this context, the previous mechanisms of development and reform of spaces are being replaced by more systematic and multi-vector practices. Currently, socio-spatial planning approaches are considered the most applicable in the context of spatial development and reform, which, based on the representativeness of planning processes and decision-making, offer an effective toolkit for the interaction of society, the expert community and state institutions. At the same time, however, emphasizing the need to ensure the technical standards of spatial reform, strictly professional processes of reform are relatively separated, placing them under the system of spatial organization. The engagement of the professional community, state institutions and society in the process of spatial reforms inevitably leads to the formation of a specific role-status decision-making system, where each subject is endowed with a certain right to make decisions and the power. In this way, the interactions between place leadership and process management emerge, which as a result reproduce the existing system of spatial control. As it becomes clear from the analysis of approaches related to spatial reform, there is a comprehensive system of knowledge on socio-spatial planning, spatial organization and control, but there is a lack of knowledge in the context of highlighting the interrelationships between the above-mentioned concepts, which is also a consequence of not considering the mentioned components in one general conceptual unit. In the framework of this work, an attempt is made to overcome this limitation by offering a new approach to the concept of territorial management (which is already in use) as a practice combining the components of socio-spatial planning, spatial organization and control of spatial reform, within the context of which a new definition of territorial management is also given.

Author Biography

Vahan Yengidunyan, Yerevan State University

PhD student, Department of theory and history of sociology, Yerevan State University

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2024-07-02

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Yengidunyan, V. (2024). TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT AS A PRACTICE OF REPRODUCTION OF THE SOCIAL SPACE. TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT IN THE SPHERE OF SOCIAL-SPATIAL PLANNING, SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND CONTROL. Journal of Sociology: Bulletin of Yerevan University, 15(1 (39), 73–84. https://doi.org/10.46991/BYSU:F/2024.15.1.073

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