ABSTRACT
If revolutionary political pedagogy-or indeed any emancipatory educational project-is to take the production and reproduction of material life seriously, then, so I wish to demonstrate in this intermediate chapter, it has to take the production of space into consideration. This move has theoretical and political import. Not only does it bring the problem of capital realization into our analysis (which has heretofore been neglected by the critical tradition, even the marxist subtradition), but it demonstrates how space and spatial production are absolutely crucial to the reproduction of capitalism, and hence how they will also be absolutely crucial for any revolt against capital. Before I get into this task, however, I bring into this conversation the spatial turn in education. I begin with the spatial educational turn, focusing on a few surveys of spatial studies in education. Next, and by way of transition, I note some cautions about bringing spatial studies into education and in response justify my own nascent spatial turn in critical education.
