Spaces of Crisis and Critique

In <i>Of Other Spaces</i>Foucault coined the term heterotopias to signify all the other real sites that can be found within the culture which are simultaneously represented contested and inverted. For Foucault heterotopic spaces were first of all spaces of crisis or transformative spaces however these have given way to heterotopias of deviation and spaces of discipline such as psychiatric hospitals or prisons.<br/><br/> Foucault's essay provokes us to think through how spaces of crisis and critique function to open up disruptive subversive or minoritarian fields within philosophical political cultural or aesthetic discourses. This book takes this interdisciplinary and international approach to the spatial challenging existing borders boundaries and horizons; from Claire Colebrook's chapter unpacking the heterotopic spaces of America and Mexico that lie <i>beyond</i>reductive ideological spaces of light and darkness to a Foucauldian reading of the Zapatista resistance.<br/> <br/> With essays on politics philosophy literature post-colonial studies and aesthetics from established and emerging academics this book answers Foucault's call to give us a better understanding of our present cultural epoch.