In this essay, I raise three questions regarding spatiality. Why do we struggle to explain spatiality? What kinds of politics does an appreciation of spatiality enable? And why do discussions of spatiality seem to be framed by people who often share subject positions shaped by education, class, gender, racialization, and postcolonialism? I raise these – admittedly awkward – questions, but confess that I struggle to answer them. Yet it seems important to address them if we are to meet our responsibilities to the publics that support academics and the publics we hope to support.
