Creating and Sustaining Fugitive, “Third Spaces” of Learning With/in/Against an Increasingly Authoritarian State

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Authoritarian repression of free thought and action is not new. But over the past decade, it has obtained a new normalcy with devastating consequences for liberatory educators, leaders, and youth workers. This proposed session asks: How might we create, sustain and protect “third spaces” of learning: contexts where young people can negotiate meanings, identities, and resistances within and beyond public schools? Further, what lessons might third spaces that thrived amid prior authoritarian moments offer educators and education researchers today? This panel extends this year’s AERA Annual Theme, “Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal” by considering how fugitive third spaces might offer sites for repairing historical harms and imagining remedies anchored in community knowledge traditions.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Education and Place, Space, Time

Chair

• Ronald David Glass, University of California - Santa Cruz

Papers

• A Conceptual and Historical Overview of Fugitive Third Spaces amid Increasing Authoritarianism - Ethan Chang, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; Chrissy Hernandez, California State University - Monterey Bay; Sydney Westerterp, California State University - Monterey Bay; Alo Wilson, California State University - Monterey Bay

• Creating Third Spaces of Learning for Post-Capitalism: A Comparative Study - Gary L. Anderson, New York University; Carol Anne M. Spreen, New York University

• Creating and Sustaining Fugitive, “Third Spaces”: A Panel Discussion - Bianca Jontae Baldridge, Harvard University; Joe Curnow, University of Manitoba; Uriel Serrano, University of Southern California; Rebecca Tarlau, Stanford University