Resistance, Space and Political Identities The Making of Counter-Global Networks

by Featherstone, David

• ISBN13: 9781405158091
• ISBN10: 1405158093
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks challenges existing understandings of the relations between space, politics, and resistance to develop an innovative account of networked forms of resistance and political activity. Explores counter-global struggles in both the past and present-including both the 18th-century Atlantic world and contemporary forms of resistance Examines the productive geographies of contestation Foregrounds the solidarities and geographies of connection between different place-based struggles and argues that such solidarities are essential to produce more plural forms of globalization

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: Space, Contestation and the Political	p. 1
Networking the Political	p. 13
Place and the Relational Construction of Political Identities	p. 15
Geographies of Solidarities and Antagonisms	p. 36
Geographies of Connection and Contestation	p. 57
Labourers' Politics and Mercantile Networks	p. 59
Making Democratic Spatial Practices	p. 79
Counter-Global Networks and the Making of Subaltern Nationalisms	p. 99
Political Geographies of the Counter-Globalization Movement	p. 119
Geographies of Power and the Counter-Globalization Movement	p. 121
Constructing Transnational Political Networks	p. 149
Conclusion: Towards Politicized Geographies of Connection	p. 177
Notes	p. 190
References	p. 196
Index	p. 221
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