The Politics of Place, Social Movements, and Curriculum Theory

• In Event: 45.023 - Critical Inquiry of Space and Place: Counterhegemonic Pedagogies Under the Radar

Abstract

This paper explores the intricate relationship between space, place, and collective identities. Within the historical conjuncture many scholars term global coloniality exists a proliferation of space/place and social movement theories are looking at the relational dynamic between spatial reconfiguration—that is, the double movement of deterritorialization and reterritorialization—and the subaltern social practices creating global, transnational, and local meshworks of resistance. My aim is to illustrate how the politics of place enacted by social movements involves meaning-making practices that reconceptualize the meaning of space and knowledge.

Author

• Jairo Isaac Fúnez-Flores, Purdue University