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Space And Contentious Politics

Mobilization: An International Quarterly

Drawing upon the work of McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly, Lefebvre, and others, we argue that analysis ... more Drawing upon the work of McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly, Lefebvre, and others, we argue that analysis of political contention dynamics can benefit from attention to the spatial constitution and context of social, political, and economic processes, and the ways in which these processes are spatially experienced and contested. We contend that spatial processes are inseparable from, and constitutive of, social processes. Starting from the central geographic concepts of space, place, and scale, we discuss how a spatial perspective can produce more illuminating understandings of how people perceive, shape, and act upon grievances and opportunities. We demonstrate the utility of a spatial perspective through an examination of ways in which space is implicated in the operation of several mechanisms identified by McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly. Finally, we introduce the papers included in this special issue on space and contentious politics, discussing the ways each author finds place, space, and sca...

Secondary suites, second-class citizens: The history and geography of Calgary's most controversial housing policy

The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien

Rethinking public participation in the smart city

The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien

Spaces of Contention

Sustainability in One Place? Dilemmas of Sustainability Governance in the Freiburg Metropolitan Region

Regions Magazine

Citizen Social Science for More Integrative and Effective Climate Action: A Science-Policy Perspective

Frontiers in Environmental Science

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Capitalist pigs: Governmentality, subjectivities, and the regulation of pig farming in colonial Hong Kong, 1950–1970

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

This paper analyzes the philanthropic governmentality of the Hong Kong colonial government during... more This paper analyzes the philanthropic governmentality of the Hong Kong colonial government during the Farm Improvement Program (FIP) , focusing on the utilization of pigs, interest free loans, and the spatial constitution of pig farming as technologies to transform refugee farmers into "productive workers." This research has three primary objectives: to 1) elucidate how the production of knowledge and governing technologies, including the spatial design of livestock production, facilitated the disciplining of pig farmers in a colonial context; 2) expand Foucauldian governmentality analysis into the realm of the regulatory mechanisms of food production systems by documenting how philanthropic pig donations, lending programs, and the distribution of material benefits promoted capitalist pig production; and 3) demonstrate how technologies -specifically the social construction of pigs and the spatial constitution of pig farming practices-molded the subjectivities of colonial pig farmers. Empirical analysis is based on archival research and in-depth interviews with 19 pig farmers and two pig farmers' association leaders. We identify the provision of free pigs and pigsties, the demonstration of new spatial pig raising practices, and the establishment of interest free lending systems as the major technologies of governance employed under the FIP. Through these technologies refugee farmers from mainland China learned and internalized concepts of efficiency, productivity, farm management, and self-help. The technologies of the FIP were not just philanthropic activities, they were political tactics to confront the penetration of communism into the colony by changing the practices, productivity, and subjectivities of refugee farmers.

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Political empowerment, local—central state relations, and geographically shifting political opportunity structuresStrategies of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Peace Movement

Polit Geogr, 1994

Political empowerment requires inclusion in democratic decisionmaking processes. In many contexts... more Political empowerment requires inclusion in democratic decisionmaking processes. In many contexts, this means gaining a voice within the local and/or central state. Drawing on a modified version of Tarrow's political process model, the present research investigates the manner in which changing political opportunities at the central and local state levels have affected the nature and scale of focus of peace movement mobilization in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Geographical and temporal variations in struggles for state control are clearly evident. Peace movement campaigns have, at times, been directed at the central state; at other times the peace movement has exercised considerable influence in local states. The severity of grievances, the interaction of local and national political opportunity structures, and economic ramifications have been crucial to the success or failure of specific campaigns. 0962-6298/13/05 0393-14 0 1994 Bunerworth-Heinemann Ltd

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Thoughts on Carolyn Gallaher’s On the Fault Line

Acme an International E Journal For Critical Geographies, 2004

Spaces of contention : spatialities and social movements

As social movements have become more complex, geographers are increasingly studying the spatial d... more As social movements have become more complex, geographers are increasingly studying the spatial dynamics of collective resistance and sociologists and political scientists increasingly analysing the role of space, place and scale in contentious political activity. Occupying a position at the intersection of these disciplinary developments, this book brings together leading scholars to examine how social movements have employed spatial practices to respond to and shape changing social and political contexts. It is organized into three main sections: (1) Place, Space and Mobility: Sites of Mobilization and Regulation, (2) Scale and Territory: Structuring Collective Interests, Identities, and Resources, and (3) Networks: Connecting Actors and Resources across Space. It concludes by suggesting that different spatialities (place, scale, networks) interlink within one another in particular instances of collective action, playing distinctive yet complementary roles in shaping how these actions unfold in the political arena. By mapping state of the art conceptual and empirical terrain across Geography, Sociology, and Political Science, Spaces of Contention provides readers with a much needed guide to innovative research on the spatial constitution of social movements and how social movements tactically and strategically approach and produce space.

Spaces of contention: spatialities and social movements

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2015

Geography 565 Urban Political Geography: The Politics of Urban Space

Spaces of Mobilization: Transnational Social Movements

Spaces of Democracy: Geographical Perspectives on Citizenship, Participation and Representation, 2004

Social Movements, Geography of

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2015

Social Movements

Encyclopedia of Geography, 2010

Social Movements in Urban Society: The City as A Space of Politicization

Urban Geography, 2013

Recent anti-systemic social movements have illustrated the central role of cities in social movem... more Recent anti-systemic social movements have illustrated the central role of cities in social movement mobilization. We not only highlight the characteristics of urban social relations that make cities fertile ground for mobilization, but also point to the disjunctures between the geographies and spatialities of social relations in the city, and the geographies and spatialities of many systemic processes. Struggles for a more just society must consider the broad geographies and spatialities of oppression, which we illustrate with a brief analysis of the Occupy movement. Finally, we introduce the next five articles in this special issue, all illustrating the importance of the geographies and spatialities of urban social struggle. [

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