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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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Pile, Steve, 1961- (Editor), Keith, Michael, 1960- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.
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)