Who in the United States proposed the term “Third Space”?

Edward W. Soja (also translated as Suja).

Heterogeneous space is also called "Third Space", an important interdisciplinary critical concept proposed and used by American scholar Edward W. Soja (also translated as Suja).

"Third space" is a "difference space" that integrates reality and imagination in addition to reality and imagination, a "third" and "othering" space.

In other words, "third space" is a strategy for flexibly presenting space, a possibility that transcends traditional dualistic understanding of space.

The perspective and epistemological model of "first space" mainly focuses on the materiality of concrete images of spatial forms and things that can be described based on experience; "second space" is a cognitive model of feeling and construction, which is based on

It is conceived in the concept of space, due to human spiritual activities, and reproduces human exploration and reflection on spatiality in the form of cognition.

If the "first space" can be called a "real place" and the "second space" can be called an "imaginary place", then the "third space" is a combination of reality and imagination.

It creates a "difference space" between reality and imagination, a space of "thirdization" and "othering".

In other words, "third space" is a strategy for flexibly presenting space, a possibility that transcends traditional dualistic understanding of space.

Extended information: Ray Oldenberg, the author of "Great Places", demonstrates some of the necessary attributes to achieve a third space: it must be convenient, attractive, provide a certain kind of food or drink, the environment is unique, and it has several

A good regular customer.

The third space is different from the first and second spaces (home and workplace). We only go there in our spare time. The "voluntary nature" of it makes them unique.

As the "space of others", "third space" is the presentation and enhancement of the structure of spatial differences.

In this regard, the concept of "space" in the context of postcolonial cultural theory more profoundly contains critical consciousness, and the targets of its criticism are Eurocentrism, cultural imperialism and the geographical imagination of "Orientalism".