Geographies of Resistance / Edition 1

by Michael Keith, Steven Pile

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415154970
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/19/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Steven Pile, Michael Keith

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables, List of contributors, Preface, 1 INTRODUCTION, 2 BLACK GOLD, WHITE HEAT, 3 A SPATIALITY OF RESISTANCES, 4 REMAPPING RESISTANCE, 5 DANCING ON THE BAR, 6 THE STILL POINT, 8 RINGS, CIRCLES AND PERVERTED JUSTICE, 9 PERFORMING INOPERATIVE COMMUNITY, 10 RESISTING RECONCILIATION, 11 IDENTITY, AUTHENTICITY AND MEMORY, IN PLACE-TIME, 12 LOCAL CULTURES AND URBAN PROTESTS, 13 SPATIAL POLITICS/SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, 14 CONCLUSION, Bibliography, Index