Spatial Materialism: Labor, Location, and Transnational Literacy

Abstract

Responding to the essays submitted to this special issue on space, the author advocates a spatial materialism for the study of communicative practices by positing the critical importance of transnational literacy, media location, and labor.

Keywords:

• Space
• Spatial Materialism
• Labor
• Transnational Literacy
• Globalization

Acknowledgements

The author thanks the editors for inviting him to participate in this special issue and the author notes Zornitsa Keremidchieva's transnational literacy and reproductive labor without which this paper would not have been produced.

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Notes on contributors

Ronald Walter Greene

Ronald Walter Greene is the Donald V. Hawkins Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota