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Spaces of Contention

Spatialities and Social Movements

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Imprint: Ashgate
Illustrations: Includes 6 b&w illustrations
Published: July 2013
Format: 234 x 156 mm
Extent: 320 pages
Binding: Hardback
Other editions: ebook ePUB, ebook PDF
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7778-9
ISBN Short: 9780754677789
BL Reference: 304.2'3-dc23
LoC Control No: 2012047423

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Edited by Walter Nicholls, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Byron Miller, University of Calgary, Canada and Justin Beaumont, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

As social movements have become more complex, geographers are increasingly studying the spatial dynamics of collective resistance and sociologists and political scientists increasingly analyzing 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 organised 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.


Contents: Introduction: conceptualizing the spatialities of social movements, Walter Nicholls, Byron Miller and Justin Beaumont; Part I Place and Space: Sites of Mobilization: Putting protest in place: contested and liberated spaces in three campaigns, Donatella della Porta, Maria Fabbri and Gianni Piazza; The liberalization of free speech: or, how protest in public space is silenced, Don Mitchell; Struggling to belong: social movements and the fight to feel at home, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Loes Verplanke; Place frames: analysing practice and production of place in contentious politics, Deborah G. Martin. Part II Scale, Territory and Region: Structuring Collective Interests, Identities and Resources: ‘Polymorphic spatial politics’: tales from a grassroots regional movement, Martin Jones; Overlapping territorialities, sovereignty in dispute: empirical lessons from Latin America, John Agnew and Ulrich Oslender; LimiteLimite: cracks in the city, brokering scales, and pioneering a new urbanity, Johan Moyersoen and Erik Swyngedouw; Multiscalar mobilization for the just city: new spatial politics of urban movements, Margit Mayer. Part III Networks: Connecting Actors and Resources Across Space: The built environment and organization in anti-US protest mobilization after the 1999 Belgrade Embassy bombing, Dingxin Zhao; Energizing environmental concern in Portland, Oregon, Ted Rutland; Networking resistances: the contested spatialities of transnational social movement organizing, Andrew D. Davies and David Featherstone; Global justice networks: operational logics, imagineers and grassrooting vectors, Paul Routledge, Andrew Cumbers and Corinne Nativel. Conclusion: spatialities of mobilization: building and breaking relationships, Byron Miller; Index.


Reviews: ‘Interdisciplinary research is often invoked in the abstract, but rarely put into practice. Spaces of Contention powerfully reminds us of why it is such an important, if demanding, endeavour. Bringing together specialists from disciplines ranging from geography to sociology, from planning to political science, and more, this book provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which spaces shape contentious processes.’
Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy and ICREA-UPF Barcelona, Spain

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