Unveiling the Power of Spatial Metaphors in Social Thought
- Advocates for social progress often employ spatial metaphors to challenge inequality and oppression.
- Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One’s Own" symbolizes women's intellectual agency, while the "glass ceiling" represents invisible barriers for women in the corporate world.
- LGBTQ+ individuals "coming out of the closet" and chants like "Whose streets? Our streets!" at protests serve as spatial metaphors for breaking societal constraints.
- Even the political spectrum can be reimagined, with "partisan" and "extremist" positions represented on a horseshoe shape.
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Some friends are ‘close’– others are ‘distant’. But our spatial descriptions of social life are more than just metaphors.
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