GEOG 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Public Space, Ethnography, Some Cities
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Indigenous long house: public spaces are designated > sexuality, size, and gender: money also determines public spaces (a lot of public use there) Use of public space on campus by student associations/clubs: mostly large-scale meetings, booking rooms = very difficult to achieve (most student associations would use spaces already designated to them) no way to apply for all spaces. Really ancient greece: amphitheatre: only male and people with property could access. Really: feminist geographers (staeheli and mitchell 2008, you can"t say public space is equally accessible to everyone, bracketing of difference (fraser 1990) counter publics, emphasizes those differences and brings them together. Is there a heterogenous public: space as constantly being formulated and deformulated, age can affect why you use a specific place > constantly being made and redmade (and changed) Debating spaces of difference in the global south. Watson 2014 lacking in academia: struggle against colonialism, colonial powers designated spaces as public/private = muscat street in.
