"The Big Open"? Heterotopias and Colonial Expansion in North America
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F25%3A10506695" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/25:10506695 - isvavai.cz</a>
Výsledek na webu
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=qUHDBQPL6H" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=qUHDBQPL6H</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23362685.5075" target="_blank" >10.14712/23362685.5075</a>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
"The Big Open"? Heterotopias and Colonial Expansion in North America
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
Modernity is characterised by a substantial transformation of space. The closed medieval space defined by a hierarchy of fixed places gives way to the open and infinite space of modern science and imagination. According to Michel Foucault, modern space "is presented to us in the form of relations of emplacement." In contrast to fixed places, most emplacements are mobile and functional, yet not all of them are determined by their specific functions. For instance, "heterotopias" undermine the functional status of other emplacements. Moreover, heterotopias engender "heterochronias", which attract attention to discontinuities of space and conventional time. As heterotopias, modern ruins unsettle the discourses of redemption and progress, and testify to the failures of economic or technological power. This is especially true about the "ghost towns" emerging during the colonisation of the American West as one of its major symbols articulating the space of the "Big Open": the West as both an "exceptional" and a "national" region, historical as well as mythical experience. As discursive and material objects, ghost towns oscillate between the function of historical monuments of the Gold Rush, prosperous industrialisation or local settlement, and the squalor and obscurity of trash, which, however, can be fetishised or even monumentalised. From its outset, the colonisation of North America has been represented and justified by means of religious, as well as secular, apocalyptic narratives constructing the continent as a space of revelations (of the future destiny of nations or the end of history). As "spectres" (Jacques Derrida), ghost towns reveal an important feature of North American colonial expansion - the imaginary, illusory, but also real nature of the Frontier. Moreover, they may turn our attention to the functioning of modern borders, especially migration flows and social divisions.
Název v anglickém jazyce
"The Big Open"? Heterotopias and Colonial Expansion in North America
Popis výsledku anglicky
Modernity is characterised by a substantial transformation of space. The closed medieval space defined by a hierarchy of fixed places gives way to the open and infinite space of modern science and imagination. According to Michel Foucault, modern space "is presented to us in the form of relations of emplacement." In contrast to fixed places, most emplacements are mobile and functional, yet not all of them are determined by their specific functions. For instance, "heterotopias" undermine the functional status of other emplacements. Moreover, heterotopias engender "heterochronias", which attract attention to discontinuities of space and conventional time. As heterotopias, modern ruins unsettle the discourses of redemption and progress, and testify to the failures of economic or technological power. This is especially true about the "ghost towns" emerging during the colonisation of the American West as one of its major symbols articulating the space of the "Big Open": the West as both an "exceptional" and a "national" region, historical as well as mythical experience. As discursive and material objects, ghost towns oscillate between the function of historical monuments of the Gold Rush, prosperous industrialisation or local settlement, and the squalor and obscurity of trash, which, however, can be fetishised or even monumentalised. From its outset, the colonisation of North America has been represented and justified by means of religious, as well as secular, apocalyptic narratives constructing the continent as a space of revelations (of the future destiny of nations or the end of history). As "spectres" (Jacques Derrida), ghost towns reveal an important feature of North American colonial expansion - the imaginary, illusory, but also real nature of the Frontier. Moreover, they may turn our attention to the functioning of modern borders, especially migration flows and social divisions.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>ost</sub> - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
60205 - Literary theory
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
<a href="/cs/project/EH22_008%2F0004595" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004595: Za hranice bezpečnosti: role konfliktu v posilování odolnosti</a><br>
Návaznosti
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2025
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Prague Journal of English Studies
ISSN
1804-8722
e-ISSN
2336-2685
Svazek periodika
14
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
1
Stát vydavatele periodika
CZ - Česká republika
Počet stran výsledku
14
Strana od-do
9-22
Kód UT WoS článku
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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
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