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Book review: Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century

Book review: Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century book reviews 207 Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch and Daan Wesselman. London: Routledge. 2020. 210 pp. $155 hardcover. ISBN: 9780367259563. DOI: 10.1177/1474474020942794 Globalization has brought with it a sort of leveling or homogenizing force, but at the same time it had introduced hitherto unthinkable diversity and difference. This paradox lies at the heart of Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch and Daan Wesselman’s edited collection, Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century. Offering the example of a Bohemian or ‘hipster’ coffee house in Amsterdam, but one which could just as easily appear in New York, Beijing, or Buenos Aires, they note that its space and character are marked by difference; the whole point of the enter- prise is to be different from its surroundings, and the global spread of such places is a feature of the present century. The editors refer to this as ‘discrepant emplacements’, and they draw upon Michel Foucault’s evocative concept of heterotopia in order to ‘grasp the clashing, incongruous spatiality of contemporary globalization’ (p. 2). As Kevin Hetherington points out in the Afterword, Foucault himself never really developed this concept more fully. Foucault mentions ‘heterotopia’ briefly in The Order http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book review: Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century

Tally, Robert T
Cultural Geographies , Volume 28 (1): 2 – Jan 1, 2021
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book reviews 207 Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch and Daan Wesselman. London: Routledge. 2020. 210 pp. $155 hardcover. ISBN: 9780367259563. DOI: 10.1177/1474474020942794 Globalization has brought with it a sort of leveling or homogenizing force, but at the same time it had introduced hitherto unthinkable diversity and difference. This paradox lies at the heart of Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch and Daan Wesselman’s edited collection, Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century. Offering the example of a Bohemian or ‘hipster’ coffee house in Amsterdam, but one which could just as easily appear in New York, Beijing, or Buenos Aires, they note that its space and character are marked by difference; the whole point of the enter- prise is to be different from its surroundings, and the global spread of such places is a feature of the present century. The editors refer to this as ‘discrepant emplacements’, and they draw upon Michel Foucault’s evocative concept of heterotopia in order to ‘grasp the clashing, incongruous spatiality of contemporary globalization’ (p. 2). As Kevin Hetherington points out in the Afterword, Foucault himself never really developed this concept more fully. Foucault mentions ‘heterotopia’ briefly in The Order

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