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To introduce and conceptualize heortotopia as an ephemeral, embodied, and conflictual spatiality produced through festive practices in political struggles.

August 14, 2026Human Geography

Heortotopias: Festive geographies of embodied resistance

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MZMara ZacharakiUniversity of the Aegean

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Qualitative study reveals how grassroots collectives use festive protest to generate temporary spaces of resistance, highlighting creative alternatives for political coexistence.

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To introduce and conceptualize heortotopia as an ephemeral, embodied, and conflictual spatiality produced through festive practices in political struggles.
Theoretical framework synthesizing Foucault's heterotopia with Deleuze and Guattari's philosophies and Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalesque.
Qualitative empirical research conducted with grassroots political collectives across five Greek regions.
Grassroots collectives mobilize celebration, wild joy, embodied excess, and creative rage to temporarily territorialise alternative spaces during protest.
Festive disruption operates as a dialogical practice of becoming, actively generating present-day spaces structured around mutual care, coexistence, and collective existence.

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Mara Zacharaki (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7ee587b70b84ec8b9147f9 https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786261467829

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Qualitative study reveals how grassroots collectives use festive protest to generate temporary spaces of resistance, highlighting creative alternatives for political coexistence.

Heortotopias: Festive geographies of embodied resistance

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Heortotopias: Festive geographies of embodied resistance

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