A (Sub-)Cultural Mapping of the Contemporary Megacity of Tokyo. A Heterotopic Scope into Social Order and Belonging.

This study examines the social order of the subcultural milieu within and across Tokyo, delving into a new discipline of multisubculturalism. The everchanging, avant-garde mannerisms of Tokyo’s subcultures are undismissable when regarding the urban cultural fabric. The amalgam of spatial destruction, reconstruction, and revitalisation has offered the city vital cultural byproducts: subcultures— (non-)spaces: fields of belonging— and individualism: the idiosyncratic nature of individuals. Economic challenges and societal unification have generated complex social subgroups, both parallel and perpendicular to Tokyo’s homogenised society, with separate groups imbuing their versions of idealism and utopia upon physical space and community. 1 Tokyo is a unique focal point for subcultural studies because of the fact that the relationship between spatial belonging and social groups has progressed over time to sociospatial ownership and domination. Within Tokyo, this phenomena affects...Show moreThis study examines the social order of the subcultural milieu within and across Tokyo, delving into a new discipline of multisubculturalism. The everchanging, avant-garde mannerisms of Tokyo’s subcultures are undismissable when regarding the urban cultural fabric. The amalgam of spatial destruction, reconstruction, and revitalisation has offered the city vital cultural byproducts: subcultures— (non-)spaces: fields of belonging— and individualism: the idiosyncratic nature of individuals. Economic challenges and societal unification have generated complex social subgroups, both parallel and perpendicular to Tokyo’s homogenised society, with separate groups imbuing their versions of idealism and utopia upon physical space and community. 1 Tokyo is a unique focal point for subcultural studies because of the fact that the relationship between spatial belonging and social groups has progressed over time to sociospatial ownership and domination. Within Tokyo, this phenomena affects innumerable (sub-)spaces, making subcultural study of direct relevance to understanding the lattice of Tokyo’s social networks along with other megacity structures.Show less

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A (Sub-)Cultural Mapping of the Contemporary Megacity of Tokyo. A Heterotopic Scope into Social Order and Belonging.