Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter–Global Networks

The transnational resistances to neo–liberal globalization are arguably the most inspiring political movements of our time. Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter–Global Networks makes a distinctive contribution through examining globalized practices of resistance in both the past and present. Stressing the importance of geographies of connection and solidarity produced through these struggles, David Featherstone argues that the resulting forms of political identity are integral to producing more just and pluralistic forms of globalization.
This provocative text first offers detailed research on networked forms of resistance in the eighteenth–century Atlantic world, then develops a rigorous study of contemporary counter–global resistances. Insightful and thought–provoking, the author develops an innovative account of networked forms of resistance and political activity. This scholarly work illuminates transnational resistances and challenges prevailing assumptions about the histories and geographies of globalization.

Spis treści:
Series Editors’ Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Space, Contestation and the Political.
Part I: Networking the Political:.
1. Place and the Relational Construction of Political Identities.
2. Geographies of Solidarities and Antagonisms.
Part II: Geographies of Connection and Contestation:.
3. Labourers’ Politics and Mercantile Networks.
4. Making Democratic Spatial Practices.
5. Counter–Global Networks and the Making of Subaltern Nationalisms.
Part III: Political Geographies of the Counter–Globalization Movement:.
6. Geographies of Power and the Counter–Globalization Movement.
7. Constructing Transnational Political Networks.
Conclusion: Towards Politicized Geographies of Connection.
Notes.
References.
Index

Nota biograficzna:
David Featherstone is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool. He has key research interests in space, politics and resistance and has published papers in several journals, including Society and Space, Antipode and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

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The transnational resistances to neo–liberal globalization are arguably the most inspiring political movements of our time. Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter–Global Networks makes a distinctive contribution through examining globalized practices of resistance in both the past and present. Stressing the importance of geographies of connection and solidarity produced through these struggles, David Featherstone argues that the resulting forms of political identity are integral to producing more just and pluralistic forms of globalization.
This provocative text first offers detailed research on networked forms of resistance in the eighteenth–century Atlantic world, then develops a rigorous study of contemporary counter–global resistances. Insightful and thought–provoking, the author develops an innovative account of networked forms of resistance and political activity. This scholarly work illuminates transnational resistances and challenges prevailing assumptions about the histories and geographies of globalization.