Geographies of Resistance - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415154979 ISBN 13: 9780415154970

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

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. Post-colonial and queer theory have opened up new political spaces. Whether resistance is an act of transgression (crossing borders), opposition (such as constructing barricades), or everyday endurance (staying in place), these are geographies where space is constitutive of the social. Leading contemporary geographers draw on material from around the world, including Israel, Nepal, Canada, Philippines, Australia and Nigeria. Recasting current themes in critical human geography - politics, identity and place - the contributors introduce unexplored notions of resistance, offering exciting insights for those exploring social, cultural, urban, political and development issues in different worlds of change.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Pile is a Lecturer in the Division of Social Sciences, Open University. He is the co-editor of Place and the Politics of Identity and Mapping the Subject, both published by Routledge. Michael Keith is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths' College, University of London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415154979
• ISBN 13: 9780415154970
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330
• Editor: Keith Michael