"Aslam Fataar, one of South Africa\2019s few educational sociologists working with ethnographic methods, captures the complex interactions and dynamics between social life, school processes and youth subjectivity in townships in the Western Cape. His work with concepts of mobilities and space is enormously generative, providing a way for teachers, principals, communities and policy makers to engage with the \2018complex ecologies\2019 of young people\2019s learning in urban schools"-- |