So what are the themes that emanate from such a scope? We may list these after the critic Doreen Massey (in Nayar) in the following way:

•  Space is a social construct.

•  The social is located in space.

•  Social space is always dynamic and is constituted by social relations.

•  Space is also about power – real or symbolic.

•  Social space might consist of contradictory, even conflictual, spaces.

Social aspects of space include an investigation of the following: