1st Edition

Citizenship, Activism and the City The Invisible and the Impossible

By Patricia Burke Wood Copyright 2017
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

Were the occupations of 2010–11 – from Spain to Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street – a success or failure? Are they the model for urban radical politics? This book challenges common understandings and underlying assumptions of what constitutes activism and resistance. It proposes a critical urban theory of politics and citizenship that is grounded in the city as it is... Read more

Introduction: The invisibile and the impossible

1. What we talk about when we talk about Occupy: Politics and citizenship in crisis

2. Radical politics and the 'post-political' critique

3. Sad, sick and diva citizens: Resistance, refusal and urban space

4. The arc of politics

Biography

Patricia Burke Wood is Professor of Geography at York University, Toronto, Canada.

"Highlighting an anarchist approach as potentially preferable truly sets this work apart. Attempts to juggle radical feminism, anti-racist politics, activism and anarchist ideas of resistance are rarely seen in CUT, and the book’s greatest merit is its ability to see beyond the narrow confines of an expected reference list or field of vision."

-Hamish Kallin, Anarchist Studies