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Edward W Soja

Thirdspace : journeys to Los Angeles and other real-and-imagined places /Edward W Soja - Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell , 1996. - xii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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 margin --
4. Increasing the openness of thirdspace --
5. Heterotopologies : foucalt and the geohistory of otherness --
6. Re-presenting the spatial critique of historicism --
Part 2. 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.


A vibrant reading of postmodern feminist and postcolonial thoughtBy the author of Postmodern Geographies (Verso, 1989)Presents a new transdisciplinary mode of thinking about space and the spatiality of social life.

ISBN: 9781557866752

Publisher. No.: International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social Sciences

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Postmodernism--Social aspects--Geographical perception

Dewey Class. No.: 304.23 SOJ