Chora
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Chora (pronounced HOra) is usually the name of the greatest or more important town or village of a Greek island.
Philosophy
In Plato, chora is used in a sense close to space, or place in space; the milieu in which Forms materialise.
More recently,
"Chora has been object of considerable philosophical reflection, especially in contemporary French philosophy, having taken the status of a master term in the writings of Julia Kristeva,... and more recently of Jacques Derrida. (...)
Chora, which Derrida insists must be understood without any definite article, has an acknowledged role at the very foundations of the concept of spatiality, place and placing: it signifies, at its most literal level, notions of "space", "location", "site", "region", "locale", "country": but it also contains an irreducible, yet often overlooked connection with the fuunctions of feminity, being associated with a series of sexually-coded terms -- "mother","nurse","receptacle", and "imprint-bearer".
—Elizabeth Grosz (1995) Space, time and perversion Routledge, New York & London :112