Heritage heterotopia:a concept for Latin American studies

A basic issue in the field of geographical knowledge regards the endowment of methods (as well as concepts) explaining current phenomena spatially located. Thus, the aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of heritage heterotopia, which is elaborated, applied and reviewed departing from Latin American research experiences. Methodologically, the research is structured: (i) from the interpretation of Foucault's philosophic principles and Raffestin's geographical notions, who respectively proposed the concepts hetetoropia and territorial ecogenesis; (ii) by the understanding of imaginative utopias and operative utopias, both produced by the heritage process (here conceptualized as patrimonializacion), which produce, imaginary and concretely, the heritage heterotopia as the other space; and (iii) on the analysis of heritage heterotopia of disfigurement in the case of Xochimilco in Mexico City, and the research of heritage heterotopia of resistance with the example of Brasilia, in Brazil. Those corroborations allow the review of the concept and the reinforcement of the thesis of faculty of pre-vision of the imaginary which is created and spread as a guidance and entity for preservation.