Ed Soja on Spatial Justice featured in CITY 2010
Ed Soja: Spatializing the Urban >>
Reviews of the book Seeking Spatial Justice:
• Bridging Theory and Practice, Andrea Gibbons >>
• Confronting Geographies of Enmity, Andrew Davey >>
• In Virginia – Desperately Seeking Spatial Justice, Jon Liss >>
Feature
The London Olympics: contributors to this special feature in CITY explore London and other World Cities alongside the Olympics, as a specific yet incredibly influential transnational phenomenon; it’s corporate, military/securitised and class-conflict-dimensions.
- Editorial: ‘The Olympics, London – and Totalitarianism?’
– Interview: Games Monitor: Undermining the hype of the London Olympics, by Andrea Gibbons and Nick Wolff
- Olympics 2012 security: Welcome to lockdown London, by Stephen Graham
- See also: Class-ifying London: Questioning social division and space claims in the post-industrial metropolis, by Mark Davidson and Elvin Wyley.
Feature
In the first two parts of a new series, CITY looks at the work of artist / filmmaker Patrick Keiller “The Robinson Institute” at the Tate Britain, London in relation to urban studies and political geography; its critique of the urbanization and possibilities for a rediscovering of nature and the commons…
– Towards the Great Transformation: (1) Beyond ‘the urban revolution’
- Towards the great transformation: (2) Nature, Marx’s ‘Old Mole’, and ‘Robinson’
- Visit the Tate website for details about the exhibition…
Feature
The Occupy Wall Street movement has inspired occupations of public space by citizens in towns and cities all over the world – in response to the intensification of inhumane, neoliberal policies everywhere sacrificing 99% of people for the profits of the 1%. Following on from the hugely successful mass mobilization of the indignados in Spain, which occupied central plaza’s all over the country; and the same display of mass resistance in Syntagma Square in Greece, or Tahrir Square in Egypt, and beyond… read more >>
See also on OWS on our website:
- “We are not commodities” – debating the future of occupy
- WHAT SPACE TO OCCUPY IN NEW YORK: A Two-Site Solution?, by Peter Marcuse
- The purpose of the occupation movement and the danger of fetishizing space, by Peter Marcuse
- Open letter to: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, et al., by Peter Marcuse
Message from the Editor
“City’s success derives from its distinctive mission. What other urban studies journal is able to appeal to researchers, activists and policy makers in equal measure? City has somehow managed to build much needed bridges between these communities. It enables conversations to occur between all those committed to a socially just and ecologically sane vision of city life. If City did not exist, you’d have to invent it.” (Professor Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester, UK)[i] City was originally founded as a journal with the distinctive mission (see Journal) that Castree defines – to bridge the gaps between urban researchers, activists and policy-makers – but also to reach a wider audience. The latter mission was to reach out beyond these three groups on its ‘home’ planet, in terms of the language of space travel, to ‘intelligent life outside.’ Read more…
