Talk:Edward Soja

I disagree

I very strongly disagree with the proposed deletion of this article. Soja is an important contemporary political geographer---a Google search brings back 25,000 hits---heavily involved in criticism of urban planning in the age of the "postmetropolis." Granted that this article does not say much of anything, and certainly not anything that is terribly useful, but it can and should be improved. Soja certainly rates a Wikipedia article. --Charles 18:27, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Articles are deleted according to WP:CSD (A7) based on the lack of assertion of significance of the subject in the article. I have deleted the article, but have no problem if someone wants to recreate it in a way that assess the importance of this person. See WP:BIO for more details. The text of the article before deletion was:

"Edward Soja is a postmodern political geographer on the faculty at UCLA and the London School of Economics."

The only contributor (beside the user who tag it for deletion) was User:Ryan Lanham. - Liberatore(T) 18:46, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Just to point out, from my perspective as an undergraduate geographer, Soja is incredibly important in any and all aspects of contemporary Ubran Geography, indeed to the extent that we were forced to watch a video about him!

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 05:55, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Blackwell Publishing

Born in the Bronx and nurtured in its dense diversities, Edward Soja was a street geographer by the time he was ten and a doctoral student in Geography at Syracuse University just after turning twenty-one. For the next two decades, he specialized in the political geography of moderization and nation-building in Africa, holding visiting appointments at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. After seven years of teaching at Northwestern University, he joined the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA, in 1972. He has twice been department chair in Urban Planning and, for nine years, was the Associate Dean. For the past fifteen years, he has been writing about the postmodernization of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife Maureen and children, Christopher and Erika. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.208.135.20 (talk) 18:02, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Homi Bhaba link

I think the article links to the wrong Homi Bhaba: it currently links to Homi J. Bhaba, nuclear physicist, it would make more sense if it linked to Homi K. Bhaba, professor of literature and language: Homi K. Bhaba. 06:39, 2 January 2012 (UTC)06:39, 2 January 2012 (UTC)~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucertola (talk • contribs)

Thirdspace

This section of the article is incomprehensible (at least, to people not on drugs). Is there a coherent concept here to be described? If so, can anyone provide a coherent description of it? 90.198.123.59 (talk) 14:46, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Seconded! Read over it a few times but could still not comprehend. BennyDiction (talk) 20:18, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Thirded. And what the hell is "trialectics"? Everything I can find just basically says "it cannot be presented or understood". Emperor's new clothes much? Equinox ◑ 00:14, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Having spent many hours this semester trying to read the source material I'm gonna have to say that no, in fact, there is not a coherent concept here to be described. Maybe I'm just weak and not meta-post-modernist enough, but I honestly believe this section is about as clear as you're gonna get. An actual quote from Soja's "The Trialectics of Spatiality" regarding Thirdspace is, "the sequentiality of language and writing, of the narrative form and history-telling, can never do more than scratch the surface of Thirdspace's extraordinary simultaneities" (57) so I think he himself basically acknowledges that the concept can't really be coherently described. (Although Homi Bhabha's similar concepts of Third Space make a lot more sense.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:282:901:A060:A9C0:68F4:729B:AB46 (talk) 05:32, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

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