The spatial turn is an expression coined by the American geo-urbanist Edward Soja in 1989, used to refer to a “postmodern critical human geography” (Soja, 1989). The concept of spatial turn emerged at the end of the 1980s in a context of a general theoretical redefinition of the category of space by the human and social sciences as the result of the encounter between the sociology of space of the Marxist matrix and the human geography of postmodern inspiration. The interpretation of the spatial turn as a focus on the social landscape can be specifically traced back to the British geographer Denis Cosgrove (Cosgrove, 1984). Through the appropriation of spatial thinking, this phenomenon began to spread into the scientific disciplines during the 1990s, suffice it to mention the examples of the “geographical turn” (Lévy, 1999) and, for literary studies, the geocritical method. Finally, the phenomenon became a well-defined research trend in the 2000s, still debated, and the subject of articles, essays and conferences proposing various forms of theorising, applications or critical discussions