Geographies of ResistanceMichael Keith, Steven Pile Until very recently questions of resistance seemed straightforward, addressed in terms of an analysis of power. This book demonstrates how new, radical geographies of resistance emerge, develop and operate. Radical cultural politics, exemplified by the black, feminist and gay liberation, has developed struggles to turn sites of oppression and discrimination into spaces of resistance. Post-colonial and queer theory have opened up new political spaces. Whether resistance is an act of transgression (crossing borders), opposition (such as constructing barricades), or everyday endurance (staying in place), these are geographies where space is constitutive of the social. Leading contemporary geographers draw on material from around the world, including Israel, Nepal, Canada, Philippines, Australia and Nigeria. Recasting current themes in critical human geography - politics, identity and place - the contributors introduce unexplored notions of resistance, offering exciting insights for those exploring social, cultural, urban, political and development issues in different worlds of change. |
Contents
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BLACK GOLD WHITE HEAT | 33 |
A SPATIALITY OF RESISTANCES | 68 |
Ground for struggle and the politics of place | 87 |
DANCING ON THE | 107 |
THE STILL POINT | 124 |
RADICAL POLITICS OUT OF PLACE? | 152 |
PERFORMING INOPERATIVE COMMUNITY | 184 |
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