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The spatialities of contentious politics.
- Source :
- Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; Apr2008, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p157-172, 16p, 1 Map
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- The question of how space matters to the mobilisation, practices and trajectories of contentious politics has frequently been represented as a politics of scale. Others have focused on place and networks as key spatialities of contentious politics. Yet there are multiple spatialities – scale, place, networks, positionality and mobility – that are implicated in and shape contentious politics. No one of these should be privileged: in practice, participants in contentious politics frequently draw on several at once. It is thus important to consider all of them and the complex ways in which they are co-implicated with one another, with unexpected consequences for contentious politics. This co-implication in practice, and its impact on social movements, is illustrated with the Immigrant Workers’ Freedom Ride in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00202754
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 32038746
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2008.00293.x