"third space" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000, Jon Van Til, Growing Civil Society: From Nonprofit Sector to Third Space",
          "text": "Third space cannot be produced by the simple transmutation of an excess corporate profit into a charitable \"gift\": tainted money remains suspect unless it is transformed by a self-consious philanthropic effort.",
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          "ref": "2008, Living in Multiple Worlds, page 30",
          "text": "While some have begun to define the concept of third space, the ever-changing nature of third space theory is a constant roadblock for scholars in this area.",
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          "ref": "2012, Adela C. Licona, Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric, page 11",
          "text": "It is the lived condition of crossing borders and existing in the realm of both/and together that allows for the conscious movement into the creative terrain of third space.",
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          "ref": "2014, Arnd Witte, Blending Spaces",
          "text": "However, this presupposes that hybrid third spaces are not conceptualized purely as spaces of mixing two or more influences on a level playing field; there are differences in conceptual power in intercultural contacts.",
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          "ref": "2008, Larissa Hjorth, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific, page 258",
          "text": "For youth of Korea – where most still live at home before getting married – these third spaces operate as spaces to connect with other like-minded people.",
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        "A place that is neither home nor work."
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