Re-writing spatiality: the production of space in the Pilbara Region in Western Australia

The objective of this project is to encourage new ways of thinking about the meaning and significance of space. It follows a desire that has been expressed and theorized by Henri Lefebvre - and by extension Edward W. Soja - to remove Spatiality from the margin of the „Trialectics of Being“ and to bring it into the „Trialectics´ fold“ alongside with - and of at least equal significance to - Historicality and Sociality. The thesis focuses on how the space of the Pilbara region in Western Australia is produced in contemporary Australian writing, film, art and through „lived experience“. The thesis argues for an understanding of space as essentially dynamic.