Homi Bhabha – The Third Space is a postcolonial sociolinguistic theory of identity and community realized through language. It is attributed to Homi K. Bhabha. Third Space Theory explains the uniqueness of each person, actor or context as a “hybrid”.[1][non-primary source needed] See Edward W. Soja for a conceptualization of the term within the social sciences and from a critical urban theory perspective.
Third Space theory emerges from the sociocultural tradition[2] in psychology identified with Lev Vygotsky.[3] Sociocultural approaches are concerned with the “… constitutive role of culture in mind, i.e., on how mind develops by incorporating the community’s shared artifacts accumulated over generations”.[4] Bhabha applies socioculturalism directly to the postcolonial condition, where there are, “… unequal and uneven forces of cultural representation”.[5]
Another contemporary construction of three "spaces" is that one space is the domestic sphere: the family and the home;[11] a second space is the sphere of civic engagement including school, work and other forms of public participation; and set against these is a Third Space where individual, sometimes professional,[12][13] and sometimes transgressive acts are played out: where people let their "real" selves show. Third Space Theory can explain some of the complexity of poverty, social exclusion and social inclusion, and might help predict what sort of initiatives would more effectively ameliorate poverty and exclusion. Bonds of affinity (class, kin, location: e.g. neighbourhood, etc.) can function as "poverty traps".[15] Third Space Theory suggests that every person is a hybrid of their unique set of affinities (identity factors). Conditions and locations of social and cultural exclusion have their reflection in symbolic conditions and locations of cultural exchange. It appears to be accepted in policy that neither social capital nor cultural capital, alone or together, are sufficient to overcome social exclusion. Third Space Theory suggests that policies of remediation based in models of the Other are likely to be inadequate.[citation needed] 'space of cultural encounter in which the colonizer and the colonized negotiate, producing hybridity in culture. This type of culture subverts colonial domination by deconstructing essentialist identity and binary opposition of the colonizer and colonized or the East and the West.' Nagendra Bahadur Bhandari, PhD THIRD SPACE --- SECOND WORLD Made a cohort Locatiom Map - a starting point in mapping our coordinates https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1gU6MUfxaTX_5X_8mw9xyzPtVhH9e5Ac&usp=sharing
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New concept - 'Sensorial Otherness' 'Anthropology of the senses' - to explore in more depth !