{"product_id":"black-lives-and-spatial-matters-9781501750465","title":"Black Lives and Spatial Matters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRios has written a compelling, theoretically sophisticated analysis of predatory policing and the Ferguson protest movement that erupted in the wake of the 2014 police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown... Rios concludes with a brilliant assessment of the queer and trans women who led the Ferguson movement and their relationship with the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis text is well suited for introductory and graduate-level work in cultural and urban anthropology and would well serve scholars and thinkers with grounding in studies of the carceral state, critical race studies, and human geograpy.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverall, in \u003ci\u003eBlack Lives and Spatial Matters\u003c\/i\u003e, Rios has crafted a significant contribution to urban and suburban studies, geography, and broader literatures on Blackness, race, and space. [O]ne of Rios's most meaningful scholarly contributions is to show how intimate knowledge of urban planning and policy are key to unpacking everyday oppression as well as the roots of radical resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e * Urban Geography *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Lives and Spatial Matters\u003c\/i\u003e performs with grace and exacting rigor the skills of audience that planners and civic leaders must develop more fully if we are to participate directly in urgent social challenges of our day. \u003ci\u003eBlack Lives and Spatial Matters\u003c\/i\u003e thus lands on our doorsteps at an opportune moment. It offers a troubling review of epistemic violence and a hopeful performance of freedom and audience skills and introduces us to the Black Lives Matters leaders of North St. Louis County.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of American Planning Association *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Dancing with Death\u003cbr\u003e 1. Race and Space\u003cbr\u003e 2. Confluence and Contestation\u003cbr\u003e 3. Racial States and Local Governance\u003cbr\u003e 4. Discursive Regimes and Everyday Practices\u003cbr\u003e 5. Politics and Policing in Pagedale\u003cbr\u003e Interlude: A Day in August\u003cbr\u003e 6. Queering Protest\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ontologies of Resistance\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Archipelagoes of Life\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409345093975,"sku":"9781501750465","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501750465.jpg?v=1730506497","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-lives-and-spatial-matters-9781501750465","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}