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The early nineteenth century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer famously wrote, “The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what no body yet has thought about that which everyone sees.” This aphorism aptly describes how our eyes might be opened wider to the many ways that everyday social and ecological relationships can be revealed, clarified, and potentially transformed through geographic thinking, specifically through diverse enactments of an activist critical geography.
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Greenwood, D.A. (2017). Telling Our Own Stories. In: Ares, N., Buendía, E., Helfenbein, R. (eds) Deterritorializing/Reterritorializing. Breakthroughs in the Sociology of Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-977-5_15
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