The Rectangular Land Survey, which covers 69 percent of the Unites States continuously, was a system of federal land management that began in 1785 and continued into the early twentieth century. Straight, gridded patterns were stretched across the country in an attempt to make the consolidation and distribution of land by the United States government quick and easy. Using the Dominant Ideology ...

The concept of heterotopia was introduced and immediately abandoned by Michel Foucault in 1966 ^ 67, but it quickly diffused across human geography, urban theory, and cultural studies during the 1990s. Notwithstanding the deserved impact of Foucault's overall work on these fields, there are some conceptual problems with the heterotopia concept. While the desire for a single term to probe spatia...

This paper constitutes an exploration of the construction of academic identity through a retrospective autoethnographic narrative analysis. In essentially experimental mode I set out to examine processes of identification evident in this account, and in particular, the understanding of desire that resonates within it for, it can be argued, without desire there is no identity. I began my analysi...

Based on a qualitative research with students from two schools in Porto Velho-RO, this work seeks to analyze these students' imaginary identify the representations they formed about Spanish language, aiming discuss their interest language and identity formation.Thus, starting captured analyzed images/representations, conditions under which discourses are produced also discussed, taking into acc...