ABSTRACT
The central premise of post-space is its explicitly metamorphic function, where it is precisely through re-visioning chaos, fluidity and disorder, rather than in spite of it, that statements of resistance or survival are made. A fusion of real and imaginary is utilised to rewrite space, to reprivilege its role as a positive multiplicity celebratory of postcolonial cross-culturalism. Rather than a space being either chaos or celebration a term in a conventional dialectic chaos becomes survival, resistance, and even celebration. Therefore, post-space must be read as acknowledging the chaos inherent in both conceptual space and its realisation in material places. Postmodern, poststructuralist and postcolonial, post-space moves beyond conceptions of space as fixed towards the empowerment of new possibilities. The chaotic multiplicity of everyday postcolonial oppression is gathered up and subverted into a gateway to the power of unforeseen pathways.
