The Globalization of Space : Foucault and Heterotopia.

The work of Michel Foucault has been influential in the analysis of space in a variety of disciplines, most notably in geography and politics. This collection of essays is the first to focus on what Foucault termed 'heterotopias', spaces that exhibit multiple layers of meaning and reveal t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Palladino, Mariangela
Other Authors: Miller, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; From Hegemony to Heterotopias: Geography as Epistemology in Gramsci and Foucault; 'An Occult Geometry of Capital': Heterotopia, History and Hypermodernismin Iain Sinclair's Cultural Geography; Heterotopia and Placelessness in Brian Chikwava's Harare North; 'It's a Freedom Th ing': Heterotopias and Gypsy Travellers'Spatiality; Heterotopias of Illness; Writing the Littoral; Heterotopia and the Critical Cut; 'L'asile Flottant': Modernist Refl ections by the Armée du Salutand le Corbusier on the Refuge/Refuse of Modernity; Zooheterotopias; Soft Machines; Notes; Index.