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Given the relative detachment of academia from the ordinary public, students remain the one audience Leftist geographers can in uence in material and potentially lifelong ways. More than this, the forces which today encourage students to see education as but a training for work require a strong pedagogical response which shows that ‘critical’thinking can be every bit as useful and world-changing as more technical, vocationally-centred knowledge. The challenge for Leftist geographers is thus to undertake a more sustained and open exchange of ideas on what critical teaching is and should be about in the after-modern university.(Castree, 2000, p. 969)

In this short editorial, and on the basis of some personal experiences and observations, I join the calls of Heyman and Castree that we geographers recognise universities and classrooms as vital sites of socially activist engagement. Whilst important processes of …