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Critical Geographies of Resistance
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.
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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.
Featuring a Foreword by Professor Cindi Katz, 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.
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.
Featuring a Foreword by Professor Cindi Katz, 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.
Critical Acclaim
‘Sarah Hughes and contributors challenge geographers to think of resistance as emergent, often quotidian, and diffuse. Arguing against intentionality as necessary for resistance, Hughes et al. offer a thought-provoking argument and range of cases to illustrate that geographical attention to resistance may identify nascent political claims and alternative spaces.’
– Deborah G Martin, Clark University, US
Critical Geographies of Resistance revisits the discipline’s engagement with resistance from the perspective of contemporary feminist materialism. Addressing many pressing political issues through practices of cross-species friendship, solidarity and posthumanism, the book offers timely reinterpretations of which acts, and which agents, create resistance.’
– Jo Sharp, University of St Andrews, UK
‘Critical Geographies of Resistance reanimates and rethinks the problematic of resistance that has gone fallow in geography for the last twenty years. It collects together new voices who passionately engage with a wide variety of different situations of inequality and injustice, using new approaches to unsettle familiar domination/resistance binaries. The authors take us beyond a purely oppositional imagination, offering instead emergent, relational and always-in-process accounts of resistance. They attend to bodies and places often seen as “outside” the political or simply targets of the political. New maps of resistance are offered, creating expanded possibilities for political paths not yet taken.’
– Steve Pile, The Open University, UK
‘In a turbulent world, how is it possible to recognise the plural politics of resistance? Critical Geographies of Resistance is a landmark collection for the human geography of our times. Tracing the pathways of resistances across multiple spaces and forms, the authors refigure what resistance could mean in human geography.’
– Louise Amoore, Durham University, UK
– Deborah G Martin, Clark University, US
Critical Geographies of Resistance revisits the discipline’s engagement with resistance from the perspective of contemporary feminist materialism. Addressing many pressing political issues through practices of cross-species friendship, solidarity and posthumanism, the book offers timely reinterpretations of which acts, and which agents, create resistance.’
– Jo Sharp, University of St Andrews, UK
‘Critical Geographies of Resistance reanimates and rethinks the problematic of resistance that has gone fallow in geography for the last twenty years. It collects together new voices who passionately engage with a wide variety of different situations of inequality and injustice, using new approaches to unsettle familiar domination/resistance binaries. The authors take us beyond a purely oppositional imagination, offering instead emergent, relational and always-in-process accounts of resistance. They attend to bodies and places often seen as “outside” the political or simply targets of the political. New maps of resistance are offered, creating expanded possibilities for political paths not yet taken.’
– Steve Pile, The Open University, UK
‘In a turbulent world, how is it possible to recognise the plural politics of resistance? Critical Geographies of Resistance is a landmark collection for the human geography of our times. Tracing the pathways of resistances across multiple spaces and forms, the authors refigure what resistance could mean in human geography.’
– Louise Amoore, Durham University, UK
Contributors
Contributors: Hannah Awcock, Sage Brice, Angharad Butler-Rees, Amelia Curran, Maria Fannin, Sarah M. Hughes, Charlotte Lee, Julie MacLeavy, Kahina Meziant, Carlotta Molfese, Leah Montange, Mel Nowicki, Catherine Oliver, Amanda Schmid-Scott, Karen Schouw Iversen, Sarah Zell
Contents
Contents:
Foreword xiv
1 Introduction to Critical Geographies of Resistance 1
Sarah M. Hughes
PART I RETHINKING RESISTANCE, REFRAMING DEBATES
2 Feminism, resistance and the archive 26
Maria Fannin and Julie MacLeavy
3 Resisting beyond the human: animals and their advocates 41
Catherine Oliver
4 Resistance without subjects: friction and the
non-representational geography of everyday resistance 59
Sage Brice
5 Towards a more-than-human theory of resistance:
reflections on intentionality, political collectives and opposition 76
Carlotta Molfese
6 Activism and resistance: activist dispositions and the
hidden hierarchies of action 92
Charlotte Lee
7 Making space: relational ethnography and emergent resistance 107
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 124
Angharad Butler-Rees
9 ‘Bollocks to Brexit’: the geographies of Brexit protest
stickers, 2015‒21 138
Hannah Awcock
10 Struggles around housing: La Plaza De La Hoja in Colombia 153
Karen Schouw Iversen
11 ‘What size is the room?’: using the law to resist the UK’s
bedroom tax 168
Mel Nowicki
12 Bearing witness at a Home Office reporting centre 182
Amanda Schmid-Scott
13 ‘Unleashing the beast’: emergent resistance in White charity 199
Kahina Meziant
14 Around, despite, and without reference to domination:
crafting oppositional human geographies in migrant detention 217
Leah Montange
Index
Foreword xiv
1 Introduction to Critical Geographies of Resistance 1
Sarah M. Hughes
PART I RETHINKING RESISTANCE, REFRAMING DEBATES
2 Feminism, resistance and the archive 26
Maria Fannin and Julie MacLeavy
3 Resisting beyond the human: animals and their advocates 41
Catherine Oliver
4 Resistance without subjects: friction and the
non-representational geography of everyday resistance 59
Sage Brice
5 Towards a more-than-human theory of resistance:
reflections on intentionality, political collectives and opposition 76
Carlotta Molfese
6 Activism and resistance: activist dispositions and the
hidden hierarchies of action 92
Charlotte Lee
7 Making space: relational ethnography and emergent resistance 107
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 124
Angharad Butler-Rees
9 ‘Bollocks to Brexit’: the geographies of Brexit protest
stickers, 2015‒21 138
Hannah Awcock
10 Struggles around housing: La Plaza De La Hoja in Colombia 153
Karen Schouw Iversen
11 ‘What size is the room?’: using the law to resist the UK’s
bedroom tax 168
Mel Nowicki
12 Bearing witness at a Home Office reporting centre 182
Amanda Schmid-Scott
13 ‘Unleashing the beast’: emergent resistance in White charity 199
Kahina Meziant
14 Around, despite, and without reference to domination:
crafting oppositional human geographies in migrant detention 217
Leah Montange
Index
