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Title: Re-imagined post-colonial geographies: Graduate students explore spaces of resistance in the wake of Ferguson

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Using Harvey’s (2012) Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography and Sharp’s (2009) Geographies of Postcolonialism as theoretical approaches and Gordon’s (2008) Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City as historical context, a graduate-level critical geography of urban higher education class conducts field observations of St. Louis’ uneven geographies, centering Ferguson as a point of departure. Our use of critical geography and postcolonialism within education are critiques of U.S. capital accumulation in urban spaces and frame how we analyzed our observations and geo- graphic information systems data. Specifically, we use the subaltern space of Canfield Apartments, where Michael Brown was executed on 9 August 2014 by a Ferguson Police Department officer as the central location. Through field notes of each student’s site visits, bus-riding experience, and GIS data, we aim to provide mixed-method results on spaces of resistance and public transportation access, parts of uneven geographic developments contributing to discourses of U.S. college accessibility in St. Louis.

Url: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0034523718760063

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Authors: Dache-Gerbino, Amalia; Krause, Christopher

Periodical (Full): Research in Education

Issue: 1

Volume: 104

Pages: 3-23

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Education

Countries: United States