Geographies of Resistance

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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 (stayin.  Read more... Cover Title Page Copyright Page Half Title Table of Contents List of figures and tables List of contributors Preface 1. Introduction: Opposition, political identities and spaces of resistance Introduction: Geography and Resistance Spaces of Power and Opposition Oppositional positions The terrain of opposition Summary Resistance, Spaces of Deception and the Blur of Political Identities Algerian anti-colonial resistance and the veil: spaces of deception The blurring of political identities Conclusion The Politics of Location and Geographies of Resistance. Or, on Straying from the Beaten TrackAcknowledgements Notes 2. Black Gold, White Heat: State violence, local resistance and the national question in Nigeria Nigerian El Dorado: Oil, Oil Politics and Uneven Development in Rost-Colonial Nigeria A Tale of Two Places: Petrolic Despotism in Kano and Ogoniland Kano Ogoniland The Moral Economy of Islam and Ethnic Communalism: Community, Identity, Resistance Money, modernism, millenarianism: the Maitatsine insurrection 17 Drilling fields: oil, self-determination and the minority question in Ogoniland. State Violence, The National Question and Locality PoliticsAcknowledgements Notes 3. A Spatiality of Resistances: Theory and practice in Nepal's Revolution of 1990 Theorizing Resistance A Spatiality of Resistance A Note on 'Revolution' Plage and the Emergence of Resistance Dominance without hegemony Seed crystals for resistance Strategic non-violence Homeplaces of resistance Strategic Mobility and the Transformation of Place Packs and swarms Relays and interwoven spaces Place as strategy: transformed space Place as strategy: liberated space Globally placed. The Spatiality of DominationDominance/compromise Compromise/cooption Places and Resistances Acknowledgements Notes 4. Remapping Resistance: 'Ground for struggle' and the politics of place Cites of Resistance in Agrarian and Cultural Studies Ground for Struggle in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands Postcolonial Positions, 'Resisting' Resettlement 'Third Spaces' and Discursive Complicity Acknowledgements Notes 5. Dancing on the Bar: Sex, money and the uneasy politics of third space 'Third Space', Identity and Resistance The Dialogics of the Dance: An Evening at the Brunswick. Dancing on the Bar: Marring Geographies of ResistanceNotes 6. The Still Point: Resistance, expressive embodiment and dance Introduction Non -- Represenational Theory Power, Domination and Resistance? Embodiment with Attitude: The Case or Dance A Dance Through History and Geography Dance, Embodiment and Resistance Conclusions Notes 7. Radical Politics out of Place?: The curious case of ACT UP Vancouver ACT UP Background Radical democratic citizenship Acting Up in Vancouver The Successes of ACT UP Vancouver Anger ACT UP Vancouver as a Disciplinary Force.