| Summary: | Drawing from « the spatial turn » of the 1970’s and the work of Henri Lefebvre, this article tackles the issue of the sociological and political dimensions of space. It claims that in order to give space all its social relevance, we need to reflect about it in two directions: toward the realm of experience and the anthropological foundations of agency on one hand, toward the institution of the common and the political foundations of the living together on the other hand. Each of those two perspectives meets up with the too often disjointed contemporary debates on the relations of space to agency and the reproduction of inequalities. This disjunction, between emancipation and domination, has its roots in the epistemological debates in social sciences (neo-marxism, pragmatic turn) and their impact on the theories of space. In order to link those two perspectives, the article draws finally a pragmatic of space and the common. This pragmatic, inspired by the recent work of Laurent Thévenot, offers a pluralistic reading of the various political figure of space; each connecting, under a specific mode (territory, public space, common space), people’s engagement and the constitution of the common.
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