{"pk":42615,"title":"Journeys to Others and Lessons of Self: Carlos Castaneda in \nCamposcape","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, this article examines the importance of place and gender within constructions of race politics in Carlos Castaneda’s series on shamanism. Championing a “separate reality” predicated on an indigenous worldview, Castaneda’s lessons invited transnational middle-class youth to \"journey\" alongside him to camposcape—an anachronistic and idealized countryside—as a means to escape the bourgeois values of their homelands and find spiritual fulfillment in a timeless and \"authentic\" Mexico. Castaneda’s work proposed new viable spaces of difference in Mexico, yet inscribed these spaces with a masculinist discourse that served to neutralize the gender trouble within the counterculture movement in both Mexico and the US.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Heterotopia"},{"word":"Carlos Castaneda"},{"word":"Camposcape"},{"word":"Mexico"},{"word":"American Studies"},{"word":"Latin American Studies"}],"section":"SPECIAL FORUM: Revolutions and Heterotopias","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2k72p3w7","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ageeth","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sluis","name_suffix":"","institution":"Butler University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-12-28T21:47:03Z","date_accepted":"2012-12-28T21:47:03Z","date_published":"2012-12-28T21:47:15Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/42615/galley/31815/download/"}]}