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(2018) Choreographing the airport, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Far from being the purely solitary stage of commerce and transit defined twenty years ago by Marc Augé as a "non-place," the global hub airport is rather a space in which cosmopolitanist and nationalist allegiances and logics are contested in complex ways. This chapter redresses Augé's binary of place and non-place by bringing together thinking from cultural theorists on thirdspace as a site of cultural contestation, and various invocations of the airport as global city, terraformer and heterotopia. Taking further the claim for the airport as "in-between," the chapter uncovers how citation of place occurs here in ways that echo the strategies of museum display, while emplaced experiences of the "anywhere/nowhere" cosmopolitan space can also happen. This chapter extends work done by geographer Edward Soja, adapting Homi Bhabha's conception of a thirdspace of cultural contestation.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69572-3_2
Full citation:
Shih Pearson, J. (2018). Persistent place or thirdspace?, in Choreographing the airport, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 37-60.
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