E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten
Burke Wood Citizenship, Activism and the City
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-71929-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
The Invisible and the Impossible
E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten
Reihe: Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics
ISBN: 978-1-351-71929-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Were the occupations of 2010–11 – from Spain to Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street – a success or failure? Are they the model for urban radical politics? This book challenges common understandings and underlying assumptions of what constitutes activism and resistance. It proposes a critical urban theory of politics and citizenship that is grounded in the city as it is inhabited. For those who are marginalized, the city is a double-edged sword of oppression and emancipation.
This book argues for an intersectional approach that actively dismantles hierarchies and embraces a wider range of acts of resistance and creative transformation, one in which we recognize these acts of citizenship as a form of constitutionalism. Wood reframes the theorization of both protest and of the city, 'post-political' literature and the history of protest, and Marxist and anarchist ideas about the time and space of politics. Through this, a unique approach to provide new theoretical insights and challenges to post-political thinking is adopted.
This is valuable reading for those interested in political, urban and social geography, in addition to political economy and progressive politics in the urban context.
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Introduction: The invisibile and the impossible
1. What we talk about when we talk about Occupy: Politics and citizenship in crisis
2. Radical politics and the 'post-political' critique
3. Sad, sick and diva citizens: Resistance, refusal and urban space
4. The arc of politics
