Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century

Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch, Daan Wesselman, Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch, Daan Wesselman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781032238654
• eBook ISBN: 9781000026573
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

Can heterotopia help us make sense of globalisation? Against simplistic visions that the world is becoming one, Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century shows how contemporary globalising processes are driven by heterotopian tension and complexities.

A heterotopia, in Michel Foucault's initial formulations, describes the spatial articulation of a discursive order, manifesting its own distinct logics and categories in ways that refract or disturb prevailing paradigms. While in the twenty-first century the concept of globalisation is frequently seen as a tumultuous undifferentiation of cultures and spaces, this volume breaks new ground by interrogating how heterotopia and globalisation in fact intersect in the cultural present. Bringing together contributors from disciplines including Geography, Literary Studies, Architecture, Sociology, Film Studies, and Philosophy, this volume sets out a new typology for heterotopian spaces in the globalising present. Together, the chapters argue that digital technologies, climate change, migration, and other globalising phenomena are giving rise to a heterotopian multiplicity of discursive spaces, which overlap and clash with one another in contemporary culture.

This volume will be of interest to scholars across disciplines who are engaged with questions of spatial difference, globalising processes, and the ways they are imagined and represented.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Editors and contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: interrupting globalisation – heterotopia in the twenty-first century
• 2 Other spaces for the Anthropocene: heterotopia as dis-closure of the (un)common
• 3 H is for heterotopia: temporalities of the “British New Nature Writing”
• 4 Disruptive elders: enacting heterotopias of the riverbank
• 5 Agricultural heterotopia: the Soybean Republic(s) of South America
• 6 “Interesting and incompatible relationships”: force and form in Pedro Costa’s porous city
• 7 Heterotopia and perspective: towards a different imagining of landscape
• 8 Of tourists and refugees: the global beach in the twenty-first century
• 9 Airbnb as an ephemeral space: towards an analysis of a digital heterotopia
• 10 New communication technologies and the transformations of space: lessons from Michel Serres’ Thumbelina
• 11 The prison as playground: global scripts and heterotopic vertigo in Prison Escape
• 12 Dramatic heterotopia: the participatory spectacle of Burning Man
• 13 Afterword
• Index