The document discusses several topics related to spaces and places, including: how spaces can be gendered, raced, or classed; how playground spaces can become gendered through teacher instructions; spaces in "figured worlds" like romance and socialization into those worlds; socialization into being a "college student"; expressions of identity through lawn art in small towns; pedagogies of place and design; segregated places by race and class; transitions and phases of transitions like endings, neutral zones, and new beginnings; and transitioning to retirement. It also announces an upcoming online chat about life transitions.

1. Identities in events
places/transitions
SEPTEMBER 26

2. Spaces as constructed
Spaces as gendered, raced, or classed
Gendered worlds as mediated by language use
Children on playground space: practices not necessarily
gendered
Teacher: tells children to group up by “boys” and “girls”
Playground space becomes gendered as a binary space

3. Spaces in figured worlds:
Romance
Learning language, practices, roles related to engaging
in romance
Categories of “male” and “female” practices
Socialization by veterans on strategies and tactics
Popular culture: Need to have a relationship versus
being single
Sex and the City: relationships

4. socialization into a
community
Participation and trajectories in “community of practice”
Peripheral, Inbound, Insider, Boundary, Outbound
Socialization by veterans into world
Figured world of romance: sorority sisters
AA: veteran members: narratives

5. Becoming a “college
student”
Socialization: General College, University of Minnesota
Middle-class home social practices transferred to college
classes
College peers supportive of studying versus distractions
Time management practices: workplace college

6. Michael Perry: Population 456: New Auburn,
Wisconsin
I am happy here, but my gravitation to place has always been balanced by my
need to move. I crave a contrapuntal mix of shiftlessness and stability. In bed at
night, I can hear the trucks out on the highway. Sometimes a driver drifts across
the white line, and when the tires hit the rumble strip, the rubbery howl makes
me want to drive away in the night, fills me with the urge to go west, makes me
think the finest sort of freedom is found at sunrise in a South Dakota rest stop.
Contentment, it turns out, can be a matter of global positioning.

7. Lawn art in new auburn, wi.
In New Auburn, as in any place, lawn art is a form of public display as
simultaneously trite and revealing as bumper stickers and nose rings. Between
the porch and the road, iconography sprouts: the bathtub Madonna, the milk-
cow windmill, giant mushrooms carved from stumps, yellow Norwegian Crossing
traffic signs--these images speak to who we are.

8. Pedagogies of Place: Design (Ellsworth,
2005)
“The experience of the learning self in the times and places of
knowledge in the making, which are also the times and places of the
learning self in the making.”
Places “speak to and about pedagogy indirectly through
design…[they are] things in the making [that] provide us
with a ‘zone of historical indetermination’ that allows room
for experimentation.”

9. Maya Lin: Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial

10. Lin: design of place
Lin: “I create places in which to think, without trying to dictate what to
think.”
Pedagogy: “must create places in which to think without
already knowing what we should think.”
Place “confronts us from outside the concepts we already
have, outside the subjectivities we already are.”

11. Small-town Minnesota Summer Festivals
Ron Lavenda: Cornfests and Water Carnivals
Cornfests and Water Carnivals
Celebration of town unity/coherence
Display of expertise/resources:“Corn Days”
Queen’s Pageant
Demonstration of commitment to town values
Gender identity associated with traditional values
Assuming the role of representing the town’s idealized expectations for young people
Pleasure at witnessing commitment to conforming to these expectations

12. segregated places by race
and class
Sheryll Cashin,The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the
American Dream
Racist real estate policies: “desirable neighborhoods”: higher housing
prices
Housing segregation and schooling
43 percent of Latinos and 38 percent of blacks attend schools
where fewer than 10 percent of their classmates are white

13. 18% of upper income live in only upper
income neighborhoods

14. Eric Klinenberg: Living solo
1950: 4 million living alone; 9% of households; 22% single
2012: 33 million living along; 28% of household; 50% single
Women could not live alone in the past
Social security: 80% of all widows/widowers live alone
Seniors living alone: having their own home important
Minneapolis: more than 40% of households are single

15. Bridges: Managing
transitions
Change: focus on the outcome or result of making change
Transition: focus on the letting go of the status quo past
“Transitions starts with an ending”

16. Phases of transitions
Ending, losing, letting go
Neutral zone of in-between time of readjusting
Coming out with a new beginning

17. Institutions in the neutral
zone
Anxiety rises and motivation falls: disorientation
No set givens; everything is in flux
Productivity declines
People are polarized, overloaded, and confused

18. transition: retirement
1. On the back of your large sheet, list activities that you did before retirement
that you no longer engage in.
2. List activities that you now do that you didn’t engage in before retirement.
3. In the first list, put a minus next to activities that you miss doing.
4. In the second list, put a plus next to activities that you particularly enjoy.
5. Share your reflections on the plusses and minuses.

19. For Oct. 3: online chat:
12:30 - 2:00
Recall events in your past that were turning points or
transitions in your life: for example, retirement.
On the Forum Reply: write a brief summary of one event.
And/or share a description on the Chat and what this event
represented a change or transition in your identity
Click on Chat, enter in posts in the bottom box, and push
return to have the post appear in the large box
Note: there’s word limit for each Chat post