READ:
Jeremiah Spence, Joseph Straubhaar, Zeynep Tufekci, Alexander Cho, and Dean Graber, “Structuring Race in the Cultural Geography of Austin,” in Staubhaar, Spence, Tufekci, and Lentz, eds., Inequity in the Technopolis: Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012, pp. 33-59.
OR
Martha Norkunas, “Women’s Narratives of Racialized and Gendered Space in Austin, Texas,” etnološka tribuna 39, vol. 46 (2016): 139-56
FIND: photographs and other graphics in Celebrating the Rag that you think demonstrate the significance of spatiality and history.
Edward Soja asks us to think differently about history by approaching social movements from both a historical and geographical perspective. That is, he asks us to think spatially about history and historically about geography. Neither Soja nor the scholars whose works you read for this week are historians, but in distinct ways (lived experience vs. top-down structures) they bring these perspectives together. Whether you read Spence et al or Norkunas, what concept did you find most important and how do you think it might impact your approach to social movements in a meaningful way? It may help to bring in an example from Celebrating the Rag although you are not required to do so.
