third space
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
edit(without cultural boundaries): Coined by Homi K. Bhabha in the context of his hybridity theory.
Noun
editthird space (countable and uncountable, plural third spaces)
- A state or situation in which cultural distinctions do not apply, allowing one to transcend cultural assumptions.
- 2000, Jon Van Til, Growing Civil Society: From Nonprofit Sector to Third Space, →ISBN:
- Third space cannot be produced by the simple transmutation of an excess corporate profit into a charitable "gift": tainted money remains suspect unless it is transformed by a self-consious philanthropic effort.
- 2008, Living in Multiple Worlds, →ISBN, page 30:
- While some have begun to define the concept of third space, the ever-changing nature of third space theory is a constant roadblock for scholars in this area.
- 2012, Adela C. Licona, Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric, →ISBN, page 11:
- It is the lived condition of crossing borders and existing in the realm of both/and together that allows for the conscious movement into the creative terrain of third space.
- 2014, Arnd Witte, Blending Spaces, →ISBN:
- However, this presupposes that hybrid third spaces are not conceptualized purely as spaces of mixing two or more influences on a level playing field; there are differences in conceptual power in intercultural contacts.
- A place that is neither home nor work.
- 2008, Larissa Hjorth, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific, page 258:
- For youth of Korea – where most still live at home before getting married – these third spaces operate as spaces to connect with other like-minded people.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see third, space.