On education landscapes and learning commons

Abstract

This response engages Kaleb Germinaro's call to reclaim public space as a learning space by revisiting and clarifying my use of ‘education landscapes’ in earlier work on infrastructures of social reproduction. Working with Germinaro's concepts of learning ecosystems and learning commons, I develop education landscapes as a spatial-political analytic for tracing how learning is unevenly governed, resourced, and defended across urban space. The piece concludes by reflecting on the political questions this expanded geography of learning raises for education justice struggles.