This volume documents research illustrating public dissents and interventions to injustice in modern-day cities. Authors present everyday occurrences of city life and place making; still, they show how the ordinary city grows from historical dimensions of injustice, violence and fear.

S. Nombuso Dlamini is Associate Professor, Faculty of Education at York University. She is known for her youth-based projects, including the 2018 Youth in Politics, funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education. She served as the Jean Augustine Chair, York University after her tenure as Research Leadership Chair, University of Windsor. Dlamini's research focuses on youth activism, youth identities; and on gender experiences of Canada's racialized populations. She teaches in the area of youth culture, identity and civic engagement. Dlamini's publications include the acclaimed Youth and Identity Politics in South Africa, and the 2021 co-edited volume, Global Citizenship Education: Challenges and Successes.

Angela Stienen is Professor in the Centre for Research and Development at the University of Education in Bern, Switzerland. She directs the research program Migration/Mobility and Global Learning and coordinates the research cooperation between Bern University of Education and Antioquia University in Medellín, Colombia on Planetary Pedagogy - knowledge production beyond North-South binaries. She teaches in the area of anthropology and geography of education. Since the 1990s she has been conducted extensive research in Colombia and Switzerland, from which she has widely published manuscripts on globalization, migration, and territorial transformation, particularly of urban contexts. Her recent publications include the 2020 article (Re)claiming territory: Colombia's "territorial-peace" approach and the city, and the 2019 co-edited special issue, Youth 'doing politics' in the contemporary city.

Introduction

Section 1: Confronting Racialisation in the Multicultural City

1. De-constructing socio-spatial injustices: urban poverty among Blacks in Toronto

2. Engaging youth creativity through PhotoVoice in the multicultural city

Section 2: Disputing Urban Territories of Injustice: Arts and Public Pedagogy

3. Dreaming as repertoire: Three drawing practices that resist matter-out-of-space in the contemporary city

4. Embodying the city through the arts, community engagement, and political mobilization: Agua, Sol y Sereno's collective theater and cultural agency in contemporary Puerto Rico

5. Lament Poetry: Voices of Protest

6. Recovering and remaking a site of horror in post-dictatorship Buenos Aires

Section 3: Contesting and Reproducing Spatialised Injustice in the City through Schooling

7. Between Responsibility and "Responsabilization:" The everyday making of school in Buenos Aires slums

8. An integrative approach to the educational experiences of immigrant students in urban settings

9. Educational Borderlands: Teachers' Experiences and Intentions: Crossing Borders into a High-Status School Subject