This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016.
Dialectics of Space and Place across Virtual and Corporeal Topographies explores the inter- and multi-disciplinary subjects of space and place in two parts. Part 1 Virtual topographies of Space and Place is concerned with themes related to immaterial places, and Part II Corporeal Topographies of Space and Place explores narratives of real and imagined experiences of places. This volume, underpinned by an array of philosophical positions provides a foundation for new and critical dialogues on space and place.
June Jordaan is an architect and lecturer in architecture from Cape Town. She has worked in architectural firms in Amsterdam, Mauritius and Cape Town and recently submitted her PhD through the University of Pretoria, focusing on the contemporary relevance and application of phenomenology in architectural discourse. She has been conducting research and lecturing architectural theory and design at the Department of Architectural Technology at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology since 2010. Her research interests include phenomenology, the lifeworld, gendered space and spaces of witchcraft.
Christina Alegria is an Art Historian, Educator, and Interim Curator of Education at the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach. Her current scholarly focus examines Orientalist, post-colonial, gender and spatial theory as manifested in French Art from the 19th century to the present.