Soja

William Edward Soja (1941, in the Bronx (NY), United States) is a postmodern political geographer and urban planner at the Department of the University of California, where he is professor emeritus of urban planning, as well as the London School of Economics. He has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. His early research focused on planning in Kenya. In addition to his testimony the American feminist cultural theorist bell hooks (b.1952), and the French intellectual Michael Foucault (1926 – 1984), the largest contribution to Professor Ed Soja to spatial theory and the field of cultural geography to use the work of French Marxist urban sociologist Henri Lefebvre ( 1901 – 1991), by the production of space (1991). Soja tickets has updated the concept of Lefebvre’s spatial triad with its own concept of spatial trialectics which includes a third or spaces that are both real and imagined.Soja emphasizes critical analysis of postmodern space and society, or what he calls the spatiality, from the people and places in Los Angeles. In 2009, the University of Minnesota Press will release his latest book on the socio-spatial justice in Los Angeles. Soja event cooperating in research and writing and, above all, Professor Allen J. Scott (UCLA), Michael Storper (UCLA, LSE), Fredric Jameson (Duke University), David Harvey (Johns Hopkins University, CUNY), as well as Various teachers and students in the department of urban planning, architecture and strategic studies, and geography at the University of California.