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Place and the Politics of Identity

By Steve Pile

Book information

Year
1993
ISBN
0415090091, 9780415090094, 9780203016695
LCC
HM291 .P495 1993
Open Library ID
OL1402047M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1104676 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
244\242
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In the last two decades, new political subjects have been created through the actions of the new social movements; often by asserting the unfixed and `overdetermined' character of identity. Further, in attempting to avoid essentialism, people have frequently looked to their territorial roots to establish their constituency. A cultural politics of resistance, as exemplified by Black politics, feminism, and gay liberation, has developed struggles to turn sites of oppression and discrimintion into spaces of resistance. This book collects together perspectives which challenge received notions of geography; which are in danger of becoming anachronisms, without a language to articulate the new space of resistance, the new politics of identity.

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