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Coined by E.W. Soja as first +‎ space

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Firstspace (countable and uncountable, plural Firstspaces)

  1. Space as it is directly perceived by the senses.
    • 2002, Alan Read, Architecturally Speaking, →ISBN, page 19:
      Although there is an epistemology to the study of Firstspace, it is in Secondspace that epistemological discourse receives the greatest attention. In the long history of geographic thought, Secondspace approaches have been turned to most often when mainstream Firstspace approaches have become too rigidly materialist and "scientistic," as with the various critiques that emerged in response to the epistemological closures of positivist human geography.
    • 2016, Gabriella Gelardini, Harold Attridge, Hebrews in Contexts, →ISBN, page 184:
      For scholars of the ancient world, access to Firstspace is almost non-existent.
    • 2017, Mimi Levy Lipis, Symbolic Houses in Judaism, →ISBN:
      Aspects of Firstspace and Secondspace are selectively and creatively combined in Thirdspace, a fully lived space.

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