The lived experience of space is not divorced from theory.

—Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space

The world is not what I think, but what I live.

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

When our lived experience of theorizing is fundamentally linked to processes of self-recovery, of collective liberation, no gap exists between theory and practice.

—bell hooks, “Theory as Liberatory Practice”