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Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and other Real-And-Imagined Places
Geraldine Pratt,Edward W. Soja +1 more
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In this article, the authors present the Spatial Critique of Historicism and the Trialectics of Spatiality, and explore the Spaces that Difference Makes: Notes on the Margins and Increasing the Openness of Thirdspace.Abstract:
List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction/Itinerary/Overture. Part I: Discovering Thirdspace: . 1. The Extraordinary Voyages of Henri Lefebvre. 2. The Trialectics of Spatiality. 3. Exploring the Spaces that Difference Makes: Notes on the Margins. 4. Increasing the Openness of Thirdspace. 5. Heterotopologies: Foucault and the Geohistory of Otherness. 6. Re--Presenting the Spatial Critique of Historicism. Part II: Inside and Outside Los Angeles: . 7. Remembrances: A Heterotopology of the Citadel--LA. 8. Inside Exopolis: Everyday Life in the Postmodern World. 9. The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles. Select Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.read more
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Boundary Crossing and Boundary Objects
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Human geography without scale
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Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language
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Excavating Lefebvre: The right to the city and its urban politics of the inhabitant
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