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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review‘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
Table of ContentsContents: 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
