Geographies of resistance / edited by Steve Pile and Michael Keith.
"Drawing on material from around the world, this book examines how new geographies of resistance emerge and are articulated. Radical cultural politics, exemplified by the black, feminist and gay liberation, has developed struggles to turn sites of oppression and discrimination into spaces of re...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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Summary: | "Drawing on material from around the world, this book examines how new geographies of resistance emerge and are articulated. 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 has opened up new political spaces. Whether resistance is an act of transgression (crossing borders), opposition (such as constructing barricades), or everyday endurance (staying in place), these are geographies where space is constitutive of the social." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/97186948-d.html. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages) : maps. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-307) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781317835516 1317835514 0415154960 9780415154963 0415154979 9780415154970 9781315824659 1315824655 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed Jan. 16, 2014) |