A vibrant reading of postmodern feminist and postcolonial thought By the author of Postmodern Geographies (Verso, 1989) Presents a new transdisciplinary mode of thinking about space and the spatiality of social life. .
A vibrant reading of postmodern feminist and postcolonial thought By the author of Postmodern Geographies (Verso, 1989) Presents a new transdisciplinary mode of thinking about space and the spatiality of social life. .
Born in the Bronx and nurtured in its dense diversities, Edward Soja was a street geographer by the time he was ten and a doctoral student in Geography at Syracuse University just after turning twenty-one. For the next two decades, he specialized in the political geography of moderization and nation-building in Africa, holding visiting appointments at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. After seven years of teaching at Northwestern University, he joined the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA, in 1972. He has twice been department chair in Urban Planning and, for nine years, was the Associate Dean. For the past fifteen years, he has been writing about the postmodernization of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife Maureen and children, Christopher and Erika.
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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.
