1st Edition

Geographies of Resistance

Edited By Michael Keith, Steven Pile Copyright 1997
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

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.... Read more
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

Biography

Steven Pile, Michael Keith