Reddit reviews Seeking Spatial Justice (Volume 16) (Globalization and Community)

while these students may be unaware of the philosophies behind Occupying, they make some valid points that align with a turn towards spatial consciousness in the social sciences.

did anyone else notice that they're at a school named after Paul Robeson...and the diversity of the student representatives?

>One of the most disheartening experiences for those who grew up in the years when Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall were alive is to visit public schools today that bear their names, or names of other honored leaders of the integration struggles that produced the temporary progress that took place in the three decades after Brown v. Board of Education, and to find out how many of these schools are bastions of contemporary segregation. (Jonathon Kozol)

spatial justice, the right to the city, inclusive/dialogical democracy. these kids know what's up--even if they don't. ...and it's even sadder if they don't.

>How men and women act in the world is largely related to how they perceive themselves in the world, and … the existent potential to transform our internal neocolonial condition will remain unrealized if we fail to appropriately perceive and develop a consciousness of this condition and its possible undoing. (Tejeda et al.)

i would have cited this in my thesis about the need for spatial praxis in schools, if i hadn't finally turned it in yesterday.