Phronesis Through GIS: Exploring Political Spaces of EducationFootnote∗

¹ I would like to thank Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen for organizing the sessions on Critical Quantitative Geographies at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Geographers in San Francisco in 2007, which provided the impetus for this article; and for their valuable comments and suggestions on an earlier draft. Special thanks to the referees for their very helpful feedback and insights. Funding from Social Science and Humanities Research Council 410-2005-2452 is gratefully acknowledged.

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