Event overview
A Unit for Global Justice Student-Led Discussion
The production, access and restriction of social spaces are important factors in today’s most pressing social inequalities and injustices. In this discussion we aim to further understand how the politics of space informs our understandings of bodies, identities, political practices and processes of inclusion and exclusion. Some questions to might include:
• How do material structures within public space inform performative spaces within a broader framework of layered power relations?
• How are spatial notions of who 'belongs' in a particular space produced and what happens when those norms are challenged?
• How does bodily movement between certain spaces affect performances of gender, race, and sexuality?
• How does the claiming of social space influence or hinder visibility and representation?
It is recommended to choose 1-2 texts from the reading list below to help guide the discussion:
• Forensic Architecture (2017) 77sqm_9:26min Report
• Lim, Merlyna (2014) Seeing spatially: people, networks and movements in digital and urban space, IDPR, 36 (1), 51-72
• Loyola-Hernández, Laura (2019): Spatial crossings: gender, race and politics in Yucatecan Maya municipalities, Gender, Place & Culture, 1-23
• Mislán, Cristina & Dache-Gerbino, Amalia (2018) The struggle for ‘our streets’: the digital and physical spatial politics of the Ferguson Movement, Social Movement Studies, 17:6, 676-696
• Nash, Catherine Jean (2013): Queering neighbourhoods: Politics and practice in Toronto, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 12 (2), 193 -219
• Thompson, Krista (2007) Performing Visibility : Freaknic and the Spatial Politics of Sexuality, Race, and Class in Atlanta, TDR: The Drama Review 51:4 (T196), 24-46
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Mar 2019 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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