Contested Spaces, Common Ground

Download or read book Contested Spaces, Common Ground written by Oddbjrn Leirvik and published by Brill/Rodopi. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spaces are produced and shaped by discourses and, in turn, produce and shape discourses themselves. Space is becoming a significant and complex concept for the encounter between people, cultures, religions, ideologies, politics, between histories and memories, the advantaged and the disadvantaged, the powerful and the weak. As a result, it provides a rich hermeneutical and methodological inventory for mapping interculturality and interreligiosity. This volume looks at space as a critical theory and epistemological tool within cultural studies that fosters the analysis of power structures and the deconstruction of representations of identities within our societies that are shaped by power."