Introduction-4

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Nonetheless, according to Martin Heidegger, space is both objective and subjective. His concept of Dasein in Being and Time is about the essence of existence and the sense of belongingness, which is instrumental in transforming space into place. Similarly, Henri Lefebvre in his book, The Production of Space (2004), argues that space is humanly constructed and consequently is a means of control and power. Likewise Foucault in “Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias” (1967) speaks of the overlapping of identity and space through the notion of liminal space which he calls heterotopias. Elaborating it further, Edward Soja has developed the theory of “third space” in which everything comes together … subjectivity and objectivity, the abstract and the concrete, the real and the imagined, the knowable a

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