Of Other Scapes: Archaeology, Landscape, and Heterotopia in Fascist Sicily

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Community forests as heterotopia. The case of the Mu community forest – Ngoc Son – Ngo Luong Nature Reserve, Vietnam

“…Samuels [29] recapitulates these as: (i) that all societies create heterotopias, (ii) that their function can change through time, (iii) that they juxtapose several incompatible sites within a single real place, (iv) that they break or disrupt traditional concepts of time, (v) that they may require certain acts, performances or rituals, to gain entry into them and (vi) that they only exist in their relation to all other sites and spaces.…”

“…This statement could just as easily describe a postindustrial site, cyberspace, or a cemetery [27,30]. The concept of heterotopia remains provisional, and somewhat confusing, due to the interval between the first statement in 1967 and its wider publication in 1986 [29,31]. Foucault's analysis of heterotopia has been subjected to criticism.…”

“…He argues that those ideas seem to focus on peculiar micro-geographies, nearsighted and near-sited, deviant and deviously apolitical. Genocchio [29] uses the words 'strange inconsistency' when he discusses the differences occurring in the meaning of the term in two publications of Foucault. For him, while 'Les Mots et les choses' [33] locates heterotopia primarily in the discursive space, 'Des espaces autres.…”

“…Hook and Vrdoljak [36] used heterotopia principles, on the one hand to prove that the gated security parks in Dainfern -South Africa bear the hallmarks of heterotopias; on the other hand, to understand historical structures of race and class in regard to privilege and poverty in that country. Similarly, Samuels [29] studied the fascist land reform in Italy, using heterotopia to analyse archaeological landscapes, analysing the benefits and limitations of a heterotopic perspective in archaeological contexts.…”

The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte

“…This paper presents the results of the first such fieldwork, supplemented by information from textual sources, maps, and aerial photographs. It is the first work in the region to contribute to a growing body of historical archaeology on rural and mountainous areas of Europe , in particular of state intervention and the massive social changes of the twentieth century (Kuijt et al 2015;Pluciennik et al 2004;Samuels 2010).…”