Displacement as Heterotopic Space: The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan

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Table 1 definitional elements of Heterotopia with related examples according to Foucault (1986).

Definitional elements of Heterotopia	Examples used by Foucault
1. Crisis	Adolescence -> boarding school, military service, honeymoon
2. Deviation	Psychiatric condition -> Psychiatric institution, prison
3. Mutable meaning/function	Function of the cemetery changing from central to peripheral location in cities.
4. Convergence of different spaces	Spaces converging into one space: -> Theatre, Cinema, Zoological Garden
5. Convergence of different times	Spaces in which different times coexist simultaneously -> Festivals or Museum/Libraries (also referred to as heterochronias)
6. Access regulation	Places presupposing system of opening and closing -> Hammams, Saunas, or Motel Rooms
7. Function of compensation or illusion for the failure of utopias	Colonies (e.g., Puritans colonies in North America or Jesuits colonies in South America) are heterotopias of compensation, brothels, ships are heterotopies of illusion. They compensate for the failure of utopias or create an illusion of their possibility.

Foucault, M., and J. Miskowiec. 1986. Of other spaces. Diacritics 16 (1):22–27. doi:10.2307/464648.

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