. 2021 Jul 10;11(3-4):316–335. doi: 10.1007/s13162-021-00203-1

Table 1.

Spatio-market practices—A diagram of cross-cutting ideas and example meanings

Spatio-market practices	Perceived (Spatial Practice)	Conceived (Representations of Space)	Lived (Representational Spaces)
Absolute	Encounters and experiences with objects in built market contexts (e.g., homes; workplaces; shopfloors; webpages; neighbourhoods; city quarters; cities; countries; territorial markets) Physical geographies; Boundaries and barriers; Closed markets; Open space	Market spaces conceptualised as voids and containers; Euclidean geometry; Topographic maps (e.g., captured in representations of fixed market geographies and segments); Metaphors of internment, openness and freedom; Plotting of ‘doing’ places and thus positionality; Descartes (‘Cogito, ergo sum’ (I think, therefore I am) ‘here,’ which is different from 'there')	Affective knowledge of one’s surroundings; Sense of attachment and security (or not) ‘in’ places of production, exchange and/or consumption; Fear of the ‘outside’ and of ‘others’ (or not), including competitors and market regulators; Sited sense of power or powerlessness in ‘a’ market context
Relative	Flows and circulation of objects, people, information, knowledge, services, trade and capital; Perceptive and alternating speeds	Markets spaces conceptualised as made up of points; Topological maps (metro system maps; supply chain maps; flow charts; Gantt charts; route plans); Distance between points; Metaphors of movement, motion and mobility; Time–space compression (‘annihilation of space by time’)	Unease over travel (e.g., fear of not being on time—being late for an important meeting or event; not delivering on time; frustration due to congestion, bottlenecks and queues that hamper production, exchange or consumption); Excitement of moving into new spaces of work and/or play; Anxiety over increased competition; Exhilaration/fear over increased speeds of production and/or exchange
Relational	Relationships between human and non-human actors ‘in’ market spaces; Sensations (sight, sound, taste and smell) stimulated through spatial encounters; Value perceived as that emergent of associations between objects (e.g., land values; products on a shelf)	Market spaces conceptualised as made up of relationships contingent on meaningful objects (e.g., planograms; product portfolios; consumer journey maps); Market and product narratives distilled as an outcome of social-material dependent on the relational meaning of market entities; Future hopes and fears dependent on such relationships; Strategies for change made possible and highly conditional	Value-laden wants, needs and desires embedded in and fulfilled through spatial encounters with marketized objects; Aims and objectives definable in reference to each other and other socio-material market entities and relationships; Memories and dreams made given life; Meaning-imbued marketized sites of discipline, happiness, love, worship and mourning encountered, learnt and (re)produced through ongoing and meaning-imbued practice

Spatio-market practices

Perceived
(Spatial Practice)

Conceived
(Representations of Space)

Lived
(Representational Spaces)

Absolute

Encounters and experiences with objects in built market contexts (e.g., homes; workplaces; shopfloors; webpages; neighbourhoods; city quarters; cities; countries; territorial markets)

Physical geographies; Boundaries and barriers;

Closed markets;

Open space

Market spaces conceptualised as voids and containers;

Euclidean geometry;

Topographic maps (e.g., captured in representations of fixed market geographies and segments);

Metaphors of internment, openness and freedom;

Plotting of ‘doing’ places and thus positionality;

Descartes (‘Cogito, ergo sum’ (I think, therefore I am) ‘here,’ which is different from 'there')

Affective knowledge of one’s surroundings;

Sense of attachment and security (or not) ‘in’ places of production, exchange and/or consumption;

Fear of the ‘outside’ and of ‘others’ (or not), including competitors and market regulators;

Sited sense of power or powerlessness in ‘a’ market context

Relative

Flows and circulation of objects, people, information, knowledge, services, trade and capital;

Perceptive and alternating speeds

Markets spaces conceptualised as made up of points;

Topological maps (metro system maps; supply chain maps; flow charts; Gantt charts; route plans);

Distance between points;

Metaphors of movement, motion and mobility; Time–space compression (‘annihilation of space by time’)

Unease over travel (e.g., fear of not being on time—being late for an important meeting or event; not delivering on time; frustration due to congestion, bottlenecks and queues that hamper production, exchange or consumption);

Excitement of moving into new spaces of work and/or play;

Anxiety over increased competition;

Exhilaration/fear over increased speeds of production and/or exchange

Relational

Relationships between human and non-human actors ‘in’ market spaces;

Sensations (sight, sound, taste and smell) stimulated through spatial encounters;

Value perceived as that emergent of associations between objects (e.g., land values; products on a shelf)

Market spaces conceptualised as made up of relationships contingent on meaningful objects (e.g., planograms; product portfolios; consumer journey maps);

Market and product narratives distilled as an outcome of social-material dependent on the relational meaning of market entities;

Future hopes and fears dependent on such relationships;

Strategies for change made possible and highly conditional

Value-laden wants, needs and desires embedded in and fulfilled through spatial encounters with marketized objects;

Aims and objectives definable in reference to each other and other socio-material market entities and relationships;

Memories and dreams made given life;

Meaning-imbued marketized sites of discipline, happiness, love, worship and mourning encountered, learnt and (re)produced through ongoing and meaning-imbued practice