Featherstone Resistance, Space and Political Identities

The Making of Counter-Global Networks
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9939-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RGS-IBG Book Series

Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-centuryAtlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space andPolitical Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networkschallenges existing understandings of the relations between space,politics, and resistance to develop an innovative account ofnetworked forms of resistance and political activity.

* Explores counter-global struggles in both the past andpresent--including both the 18th-century Atlantic world andcontemporary forms of resistance

* Examines the productive geographies of contestation

* Foregrounds the solidarities and geographies of connectionbetween different place-based struggles and argues that suchsolidarities are essential to produce more plural forms ofglobalization

Autoren/Hrsg.

Featherstone, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface viii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Space, Contestation and the Political 1
Part I Networking the Political 13
1 Place and the Relational Construction of Political Identities15
2 Geographies of Solidarities and Antagonisms 36
Part II Geographies of Connection and Contestation 57
3 Labourers' Politics and Mercantile Networks 59
4 Making Democratic Spatial Practices 79
5 Counter-Global Networks and the Making of SubalternNationalisms 99
Part III Political Geographies of the Counter-GlobalizationMovement 119
6 Geographies of Power and the Counter-Globalization Movement121
7 Constructing Transnational Political Networks 149
Conclusion: Towards Politicized Geographies of Connection177
Notes 190
References 196
Index 221

Über Autor(innen)

David Featherstone is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool. He has key research interests in space, politics and resistance and has published papers in several journals, including Society and Space, Antipode and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.