Critical geographies of resistance / edited by Sarah M. Hughes (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, UK).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hughes, Sarah M., editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government, Resistance to.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword

1. Introduction to critical geographies of resistance / Sarah M. Hughes

Part I. Rethinking resistance, reframing debates

2. Feminism, resistance and the archive / Maria Fannin and Julie MacLeavy

3. Resisting beyond the human: Animals and their advocates / Catherine Oliver

4. Resistance without subjects: Friction and the non-representational geography of everyday resistance / Sage Brice

5. Towards a more-than-human theory of resistance: Reflections on intentionality, political collectives and opposition / Carlotta Molfese

6. Activism and resistance: Activist dispositions and the hidden hierarchies of action / Charlotte Lee

7. Making space: Relational ethnography and emergent resistance / 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 / Angharad Butler-Rees

9. 'Bollocks to brexit': The geographies of brexit protest stickers, 2015‒21 / Hannah Awcock

10. Struggles around housing: La plaza de la hoja in colombia / Karen Schouw Iversen

11. 'What size is the room?': Using the law to resist the uk's bedroom tax / Mel Nowicki

12. Bearing witness at a home office reporting centre / Amanda Schmid-Scott

13. 'Unleashing the beast': Emergent resistance in white charity / Kahina Meziant

14. Around, despite, and without reference to domination: Crafting oppositional human geographies in migrant detention / Leah Montange

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781800882881 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.