firstspace

plural firstspaces

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of Firstspace.

   In other words, we have marginalized 'counterspaces', resisting dominant (firstspace or secondspace) orders - thirdspace, the space of radical openness, of creativity, of activism, of social struggle (Soja, 1996).

   2008, Chris Steyaert, Daniel Hjorth, Entrepreneurship As Social Change, →ISBN

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   In thinking the countryside into Soja's trialectics of spatiality it is possible to undersand the countryside in firstspace or perceived space terms. It has a materiality and 'realness' that is, while evolving and shifting, nevertheless concrete and mappable.

   2006, Sarah Neal, Julian Agyeman, The New Countryside?:, →ISBN, page 5

   Both the Greeks and Philip are "out of place" in Jerusalem -- their firstspace location -- but "in their place" by being in Jesus' space. Jesus' firstspace location resturctures the followers' location. His firstspace location will continue to restructure the believers' space, climaxing at the cross as the thirdspace location of liberation.

   2016, Peter Claver Ajer, The Death of Jesus and the Politics of Place in the Gospel of John, →ISBN, page 109

plural Firstspaces · alternative firstspace

1. countableuncountableSpace as it is directly perceived by the senses.

   For scholars of the ancient world, access to Firstspace is almost non-existent.

   2016, Gabriella Gelardini, Harold Attridge, Hebrews in Contexts, →ISBN, page 184

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   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.

   2002, Alan Read, Architecturally Speaking, →ISBN, page 19

   Aspects of Firstspace and Secondspace are selectively and creatively combined in Thirdspace, a fully lived space.

   2017, Mimi Levy Lipis, Symbolic Houses in Judaism, →ISBN