"Finding the Critical Geographers useful once again, we turn to Lefebvre and Soja, this time on the discussion of the spaces of representation (in Soja's trialectic described as Thirdspace) which are seen as distinct from spatial practice (Soja's Firstspace) andrepresentations of space (Soja's Secondspace), but also as encompassing them. This Thirdspace is “directly lived, with all its intractability intact, a space that stretches across the images and symbols that accompany it, the space of ‘inhabitants’ and ‘users”’ and spaces of representation “are linked to the ‘clandestine or underground side of social life”’ (Soja 1996, 67). The concurrent nature of spatial dynamics then offers an opportunity to recognize the discursive in the construction of the social while still insisting upon the focus on the material, the lived experiences of space."
The whole concept of this so-called 'space' discussed in this article completely passed over my head. I don't understand what is meant by this 'space', 'thirdspace', etc. I am literally writhing in confusion.
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