Critical Geographies of Resistance

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2023
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80088-287-4 (ISBN)

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This cutting-edge book explores and advances contemporary geographical understandings of resistance. Calling for geographers to focus on the emergence of resistance and to avoid making assumptions on the forms it takes, chapters critically interrogate concepts of resistance and illustrate the political potential of re-thinking them.

Engaging with anarchist, feminist and postcolonial scholarship, this book traces existing debates on resistance in geography and suggests how they can be productively reanimated. Contributors explore multiple and everyday spaces, subjects, and temporalities of resistance, reconsidering the study of resistance in light of recent ontological developments, including in non-representational theory, the non-human, post-politics and more-than-human geographies. Using detailed case studies, the book examines what critical geographies of resistance might look like in practice, providing insight on how geography can respond to and engage with the contemporary world.

Featuring a Foreword by Professor Cindi Katz, this book will be a fascinating read for scholars and students of human, social and cultural geography, geopolitics, sociology, and those studying resistance across the social sciences. It will also be of interest to activists looking to formulate alternative resistant claims and practices.

Edited by Sarah M. Hughes, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, UK

Contents:

Foreword xiv
1 Introduction to Critical Geographies of Resistance 1
Sarah M. Hughes

PART I RETHINKING RESISTANCE, REFRAMING DEBATES
2 Feminism, resistance and the archive 26
Maria Fannin and Julie MacLeavy
3 Resisting beyond the human: animals and their advocates 41
Catherine Oliver
4 Resistance without subjects: friction and the
non-representational geography of everyday resistance 59
Sage Brice
5 Towards a more-than-human theory of resistance:
reflections on intentionality, political collectives and opposition 76
Carlotta Molfese
6 Activism and resistance: activist dispositions and the
hidden hierarchies of action 92
Charlotte Lee
7 Making space: relational ethnography and emergent resistance 107
Sarah Zell and Amelia Curran

PART II EMERGENT RESISTANCE: REFLECTIONS
FROM THE FIELD
8 ‘My existence is resistance’: an analysis of disabled
people’s everyday lives as an enduring form of resistance 124
Angharad Butler-Rees
9 ‘Bollocks to Brexit’: the geographies of Brexit protest
stickers, 2015—21 138
Hannah Awcock
10 Struggles around housing: La Plaza De La Hoja in Colombia 153
Karen Schouw Iversen
11 ‘What size is the room?’: using the law to resist the UK’s
bedroom tax 168
Mel Nowicki
12 Bearing witness at a Home Office reporting centre 182
Amanda Schmid-Scott
13 ‘Unleashing the beast’: emergent resistance in White charity 199
Kahina Meziant
14 Around, despite, and without reference to domination:
crafting oppositional human geographies in migrant detention 217
Leah Montange

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Erscheinungsdatum	24.08.2023
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-80088-287-4 / 1800882874
ISBN-13	978-1-80088-287-4 / 9781800882874
Zustand	Neuware