Mustafa D***ç is Lecturer in Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on space, politics and democracy, with particular emphasis on French urban policy, exile, and asylum-seekers in Paris. 137-69; and "The Urban Question as Scale Question: Reflections on Henri Lefebvre, Urban Theory and the Politics Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 35 Prog Hum Geogr-2011-Merrifield-715-7. (2010) "Notes on the Politics of Neo-Communism: The Coming of The Coming Insurrection," Environment & Planning D: Society & Space. Vol. 28 d12909. critique of the political economy of space to urban space at the neglect of the rural-urban dialectic.2 As Lefebvre (1973: 10; 1976:8) reminds an attentive reader, the 1 We would like to thank the Antipode Foundation for a Translation and Outreach Award; the Antipode editorial response for feedback and suggestions that personal reflection, theory, history, and observation into this chapter. Our work here will be composite—like the concrete that is the primary medium of the UMD campus, a compilation of mortar and stones. Anicca, a photographer and creative nonfiction writer, and Michelle, an academic ethnographer, will mix voices and visions to tell this story. This dawned fully on me when I read a statement by Ernesto Laclau in his New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time. 'Politics and space,' he writes on page 68, 'are antinomic terms. The Urban Question: Reflections on Henri Lefebvre, Urban Theory and the Politics of scale N. Brenner History 2000 Since the classic work of Castells (1972), the 'urban question' has been a focal point for debate among critical urban researchers. Against the background of contemporary debates on globalization and… 271 socially-produced space, on Lefebvre's account, to determine human experience, but also to Lefebvre's feel for the art-like richness and deceptive variation to be found in the multiple spaces of the world inhabited by humans. In The Production of Space, first published in 1974, Lefebvre outlines a triadic Henri Lefebvre's Critical Theory of Space pp 1-60 Cite as A Critical Reflection Beyond the Academic Disciplines Francesco Biagi Chapter First Online: 09 August 2020 426 Accesses Part of the Marx, Engels, and Marxisms book series (MAENMA) Abstract In this chapter, I aim to demonstrate the complexity of the Lefebvre's work and life. Merrifield is a prolific writer, and was a leading proponent of the idea of ' The Right to the City ', a phrase associated with Henri Lefebvre. In later work he supports the 'politics of the encounter' in a globalised world, rather than the more restrictive 'right' to urban space. Rob Shields begins his critical tribute to Henri Lefebvre by depicting his desktop and the special place La Production de l'espace occupied for a decade. Lefebvre's most renowned work in the English speaking world has inspired many social scientists to what Edward Soja (1996, 2000) has called the 'spatial turn' of the 1990s. Queer Politics of Space in the 15-M Movement WHEN THE 15 - M movement burst into the public squares of Spain,1 despite its innovative character and all its differences from previous so- cial movements, it did not do so without a history behind it or, to put