~We would like to offer our thanks to the following individuals who inspired and supported us along the way. The editors of the Transforming Capitalism series, Ian Bruff, Julie Cupples, Gemma Edwards, Laura Horn, and Jacqui True, for believing in this project and putting their trust in us to pull off not one, not two, but three volumes...

~When students enter my classroom in September, they rarely enter as radicals. They are young. They are curious. They have lived in this world for eighteen (or nineteen and sometimes more) years, and they have a nascent understanding that things are not fair, that everyone does not play by the same rules or have access to the same field. Often, by...

This chapter is inserted in the frame of the recent literature rediscovering the historical and present relationship between geography and anarchism. In recent years several conferences and publications have addressed these themes, aiming explicitly at ‘reanimating anarchist geographies,’ as in the case of the 2012 special issue, ‘Anarchist...

Neoliberalism is a force to be reckoned with. More readily, it is both a process and a discourse that picks up where the ideals of classical liberalism left off in order to persuade members of civil society to believe that individualism, competition, and self-capitalization comprise the natural order of things. Through the panic-inducing threat of ‘not being successful’ in life, the...

The aim of this chapter is to recount the practices of the geographical expeditions that took place in the late 1960s and continued into the 1970s from the perspective of the role that pedagogy played in these movements. William Bunge famously argued in the early 1960s that geography was a spatial science based upon abstract geometric laws; later he identified an approach...

This chapter offers a script for a piece of forum theatre—having initially set out to write a more standard text about ‘fuller geographies’ as an emerging practice of transgressive pedagogies. Fuller geographies is a concept that has been called into action and writing recently, not to reinvent but rather connect across long-standing debates around the discipline’s...

This chapter stems out of research that originally set out to explore how education unfolds in what are commonly described by the media and in political discourse as ‘gangs.’ The idea for the research developed from my experience of working as an informal educator in youth justice prevention services and adult resettlement accommodation–based services....

Growing up, I hated school. Well, 95 percent of it anyway. I hated getting up for school. I hated going to bed for school. I hated travelling to school. I hated math. I hated science. I hated shop class. I hated most of gym class. I hated choir. I hated my ‘Career and Life Management’ class. I hated sitting in a classroom. I hated the teachers. I hated the principal, whom I just...

In late 2012 a group started a pedagogical experiment by initiating a self-educational experience called Cycling Alternatives. We, the authors, are part of this group and cycled with people from different backgrounds through Central Europe in two- to four-week tours in 2013 and 2014. As indicated by its title—Cycling Diaries—in this chapter we will primarily explore the pedagogical effects of collective movement on bicycles grounded in our direct experiences, personal reflections, group discussions and the notes we took during these trips. Inspired by the ideas that ‘Anarchy can’t be taught!’ (De Acosta ~~~~~2009, 27), that ‘Pedagogy teaches but does not know how it teaches’ (Ellsworth...

Childhood is a period in life that is overflowing with possibilities and inspiration. ‘My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child,’ children’s author and advocate Janusz Korczak (1967, 303) once wrote, while novelist and philosopher Aldous Huxley (quoted in Remmel 2008, n.p.) was convinced that ‘[t]he secret of genius...

Kye Askins (geographical and earth sciences, University of Glasgow) is an accidental and emotional geographer deeply committed to issues of social and environmental justice. Her earlier working life was in the voluntary sector in the UK and abroad, working first in homeless shelters and latterly in mental health projects. She then studied environmental management BSc, after which she spent...

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