Scape
Ethnoscape
Explore in the Atlas →Appadurai's term for the landscape of moving persons that constitutes the shifting world we live in — tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles, guest workers and other mobile groups whose movements affect the politics of and between nations. As the human flow of global culture, the ethnoscape unsettles the assumption of stable, territorially-bounded communities and reshapes the demographics that architecture and urbanism must serve.
Migration Collectivity Country
Details
- Flow
- Ethnoscape
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- ObservationLived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Arjun Appadurai proposed
- Diasporic Publics circulates through
- Arjun Appadurai articulates
Sources
- n.d..
- n.d..
- Appadurai, Arjun. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1–24, 1990.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Ethnoscape." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/scape/ethnoscape/. Accessed July 17, 2026.