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Not yet finished, not a book like this.

If you want to get informed about the theoretical debates on space you'd probably be reading journal articles. These are brief and only allude to this or that person's way of speaking about space. There's little contemplation and explanation. The reader is assumed to already be familiar with continental philosophers' like Deuleuze and Guattari, Latour, etc. If you can't follow that thead for now, this book's for you.

Half way through, this is a book that challenges many assumptions. It teaches a lot. I couldn't easily sleep last night. Made me think of times I was "hailed" as a terrorist or criminal, and that feeling of anxiety stuck as my mind jumped to other scenes and events and got me stuck with it. The night before that one I got so enraged reading the case of aboriginals in Australia. Ungraspable and painful to read.

It's an edited book. The intro provides a nice, if brief, review of spatial theory as applied to education, and educational policy in particular. I read one chapter on homeschooling in the USA and found it very interesting. Just the other day I was discussing with a friend Althusser's educational ISAs and how to circumvent them. Thiem provides an example, although homeschoolers seem to do it for religious reasons.

Wegner and Lave probably are know for having shifted the focus of learning from the cognitive and the behavioural to the social and the relational. In doing so, they take for their case studies communities of practitioners like tailors, butchers, etc. In general, the theory is very interesting as it aligns with Bourdieu's ecological approach to the theory of social practice. Definitely worth reading.

This vol is very fine in making historical interconnections that constitute what Foucault calls a new regime of discourses that didn't stifle sexuality but brought it to the fore & reshaped it through scientific classifications, giving it the label of truth. But in fact this truth served more power than it did knowledge. Sexuality is defined by the state/church/science to serve power of capitalism/the state/church.

Lynn looked for Greek and Egyptian myths on the subject, contemporary swimming history, first athletes...etc. It's a lot of research nuggets put together to celebrate swimming. It shows from the book title, which I see as an imperative: Swim!