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Sarah Wakefield - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • reflective action in the academy exploring praxis in Critical Geography using a food movement case study
    Antipode, 2007
    Co-Authors: Sarah Wakefield
    Abstract:

    : One of the key components of Critical Geography is praxis—defined here as the melding of theory/reflection and practice/action as part of a conscious struggle to transform the world. Put simply, praxis is giving life to ideas about the way the world is—and could be—by acting on one's convictions in daily (work and home) life. Praxis can thus take many forms, and can occur both within and outside the academy. This paper examines how research and practice can be co-constituted by examining the “food movement” (ie the mobilization of disparate social actors in resistance to various aspects of the dominant corporate–industrial food system) in Canada as a case study. Through this lens, different forms of praxis are interrogated, not to identify a uniform “best praxis”, but rather to highlight the benefits and drawbacks of particular approaches in this one specific context. In so doing, the paper explores how Critical geographers might contribute, through praxis, to the recognition and restructuring of social relations as part of the broader emancipatory project that is central to Critical theory.

  • Reflective Action in the Academy: Exploring Praxis in Critical Geography using a “Food Movement” Case Study
    Antipode, 2007
    Co-Authors: Sarah Wakefield
    Abstract:

    : One of the key components of Critical Geography is praxis—defined here as the melding of theory/reflection and practice/action as part of a conscious struggle to transform the world. Put simply, praxis is giving life to ideas about the way the world is—and could be—by acting on one's convictions in daily (work and home) life. Praxis can thus take many forms, and can occur both within and outside the academy. This paper examines how research and practice can be co-constituted by examining the “food movement” (ie the mobilization of disparate social actors in resistance to various aspects of the dominant corporate–industrial food system) in Canada as a case study. Through this lens, different forms of praxis are interrogated, not to identify a uniform “best praxis”, but rather to highlight the benefits and drawbacks of particular approaches in this one specific context. In so doing, the paper explores how Critical geographers might contribute, through praxis, to the recognition and restructuring of social relations as part of the broader emancipatory project that is central to Critical theory.

Melinda Lemke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • (Un)doing Spatially Fixed Inequality: Critical Reflections on Urban School District-Community Partnerships
    The Urban Review, 2020
    Co-Authors: Melinda Lemke
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    Utilizing Critical Geography, Critical history, and Critical educational studies as guideposts, this article examines community organizing and school district partnerships as relevant to improving urban public education reform efforts and schooling practices within the United States. Proceeding in four parts, part one discusses the kinds of external multi-sector entities working with school districts in a continued era of accountability-driven educational reform. Understanding community activism as a lever to address urban geospatial obstacles to equity-oriented educational practices, this is followed by a historical overview of community-based organizations (CBOs) as tied to sociopolitical, economic, and schooling transformation throughout the U.S. Part three helps to illustrate this position through discussion of the Buffalo-Niagara Region and the case of one urban school district context—Buffalo Public Schools (BPS). Specifically, it considers how regional history, demographic shifts, urban development, racial spatialization, and CBOs affect district practices. It concludes with a discussion of the significance of CBO partnerships with urban schools toward the end of improving educational opportunities for traditionally underserved, low income, and minoritized student populations.

Eden Kinkaid - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Dian Mawene - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • spatial othering examining residential areas school attendance zones and school discipline in an urbanizing school district
    Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
    Co-Authors: Dian Mawene
    Abstract:

    Drawn from interdisciplinary perspectives of special education, Critical Geography, and education policy, in this study, we examined the spatial patterns of residential areas, school attendance zones, and school discipline rates of an urbanizing school district in Wisconsin to understand the construction of spatial “Other.” We measured the city’s dissimilarity index to examine racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and elementary schools. We also measured the school district suspension rates to examine racial disproportionality in school discipline. We then analyzed to what extent the redrawing of elementary school attendance zones in the 2007-2008 school year was able to reduce the spatial concentration of racially and economically minoritized students in one elementary public school. We found that despite the well-intentioned efforts of the rezoning committee to lower the percentage of students from low-income families, spatial othering at the neighborhood level continued to funnel students from racially and minoritized backgrounds into the school, due to the concentration of low-income housing in the neighborhood of the school.

Nicholas Blomley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Critical Geography: anger and hope
    Progress in Human Geography, 2007
    Co-Authors: Nicholas Blomley
    Abstract:

    I Deradicalization? Leftist academics in the Anglo-American world,1 if we are to believe some commentators, have won. Observers on the Right, such as Roger Kimball (1991), warn against the rise of ‘tenured radicals’ within the American academy whose goal is ‘nothing less than the destruction of the values, methods, and goals of traditional humanistic study’ (p. xi). David Horowitz (1998) (author of a recent book on the 100 most dangerous US professors) argues that, despite appearances, the Left is not in retreat, but has seized control of the academy through a calculated 20-year assault designed ‘to politicize the curriculum and infuse it with left wing agendas’ (p. 34). Those Marxist scholars who lament their exclusion from current scholarship will be heartened to learn from Horowitz that ‘discredited Marxism still provides the paradigm for every current radical ideology from feminism to queer theory’ (p. 33). American politicians have begun to propose controls on such radicals, while websites (eg, uclaprofs. com) urge students and alumni to monitor left-leaning professors. Some scholars on the left, meanwhile, worry that that the Left has become a victim of its own success. Eric Lott (2006) lambasts ‘boomer liberals’, such as Todd Gitlin, Russell Jacoby and Martha Nussbaum, who have, he claims, seized the political limelight and distorted leftist politics.2 For Petras (2001), many left intellectuals have become instruments of bourgeois hegemony. He excoriates many leftist academics for legitimizing hegemony through an unCritical use of hegemonic concepts and categories, such as ‘globalization’ or the ‘information revolution’ (cf. Baeten, 2002). Once radical researchers now crave the symbols of bourgeois prestige (the Chairs, prizes, grants and so on), and tailor their radicalism in order to secure a successful career, allowing nostalgia for a distant radical past to become a substitute for serious analysis, for example, or embracing a form of ‘cocktail leftism’, where conventional research and teaching during work time is separated from after-hours radical chitchat. Put more bluntly, ‘it is . . . chic to be radical. But it usually Progress reports

  • UnCritical Critical Geography
    Progress in Human Geography, 2006
    Co-Authors: Nicholas Blomley
    Abstract:

    Critical human Geography: A diverse andrapidly changing set of ideas and practiceswithin human Geography linked by a sharedcommitment to emancipatory politics withinand beyond the discipline, to the promotion ofprogressive social change and the developmentof a broad range of Critical theories and theirapplication in geographical research andpolitical practice. (Painter, 2000: 126)[I]tOs increasingly difficult to define what,substantively, it means to be a thinker of theLeft. (Castree and Wright, 2005: 6)

  • Spacing Out: Towards a Critical Geography of Law
    Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 1992
    Co-Authors: Nicholas Blomley, Joel C. Bakan
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    The authors analyze the interconnections between space, law, and power and forge links between Critical studies in law and Geography. Analytical categories of space-for example, the divide between public and private space, or the concept of national citizenship-are all politically constructed. The authors analyze Canadian and American concepts of federalism and their impact on regulating worker safety. A common judicial mapping of work, local space, and state regulation determines whether local officials have enforcement authority in contexts where national worker safety regulations apply. Through this analysis, the authors illustrate the potential for future studies in Critical legal Geography. This article is available in Osgoode Hall Law Journal: http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol30/iss3/9 SPACING OUT: TOWARDS A Critical Geography OF LAW© By NICHoLAs K. BLOMLEY* AND JOEL C. BAKAN** The authors analyze the interconnections between space, law, and power and forge links between Critical studies in law and Geography. Analytical categories of space-for example, the divide between public and private space, or the concept of national citizenship-are all politically constructed. The authors analyze Canadian and American concepts of federalism and their impact on regulating worker safety. A common judicial mapping of work, local space, and state regulation determines whether local officials have enforcement authority in contexts where national worker safety regulations apply. Through this analysis, the authors illustrate the potential for future studies in Critical