Black Internationalism, Subaltern Cosmopolitanism, and the Spatial Politics of Antifascism

Featherstone, David

doi:10.1080/00045608.2013.779551

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“…These are remaindered, contradictory and forgotten spaces that perform the dirty work of capitalism: 'the places where we produce…energy with little regard for the health or beauty of the land to maintain our clean and convenient lives' (Purdy, 2011). It is unclear at this stage whether the actions of local groups constitute a form of 'subaltern cosmopolitanism' (Featherstone, 2013) that moves beyond the spatialities of the locale and region to engage with opencast campaigns in other parts of the UK (Dunion, 2003) and beyond, such as mountain top removal in Appalachia (see Morrone and Buckley, 2011), but there are signs of wider engagements and impacts in terms of developing relationships with national newspaper journalists and environmental NGOs. Perhaps Phillips' (2011) idea of 'vernacular activism' comes closet to describing what is happening in the South Wales Valleys, with the small-scale actions in these places being 'generative in the germination and cultivation of broader political ideas, which are both distilled from and applied to particular contexts' (113).…”

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Environmental injustice and post-colonial environmentalism: Opencast coal mining, landscape and place

Milbourne

Mason

2016

Environ Plan A

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In this article we use a case study of opencast coal mining in the southern valleys of Wales to explore the ordinary and everyday spatialities of environmental injustice. Responding to recent geographical critiques of environmental justice research and engaging with post-colonial studies of landscape and environment, we provide an account of environmental injustice that emphasises competing geographical imaginaries of landscape and ‘ordinary political injustices’ within everyday spaces. We begin with a discussion of how historical environmental injustices in Wales have been framed within nationalist politics as a form of colonial exploitation of the country’s natural resources. We then make use of materials from recent research on opencast mining in South Wales to examine local understandings of and everyday encounters with mining, highlighting contradictory discourses of opencast mining, landscape and place, and the injustices associated with mining developments in this region.

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Environmental injustice and post-colonial environmentalism: Opencast coal mining, landscape and place

Milbourne

Mason

2016

Environ Plan A

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“…To identify the significance of simultaneous difference and commonality, some researchers use a range of modifiers of the term 'cosmopolitanism', including diasporic (Sinatti 2006;Glick Schiller 2015), rooted (Appiah 2006) and subaltern (Featherstone 2013. ) This concern is underlined by Frykman and Glick Schiller and Çağlar in their contributions to this volume.…”

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Envisioning place: urban sociabilities within time, space and multiscalar power

Schiller

Schmidt

2015

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“…As they began to compare notes, they realized the extent of the fraud that had permeated their modest households, as banks and real‐estate agencies sought out their hard‐earned euros through less than honest means. As Gidwani () and Featherstone () remind us, experiences of exclusion in no way preclude politics or even the elaboration of sophisticated mental itineraries of justice, solidarity and cosmopolitanism. Furthermore, as Theodore has explored (), traditions of popular organizing in vastly different contexts can influence new repertoires of activism and resistance.…”

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From Occupation to Recuperation: Property, Politics and Provincialization in Contemporary Madrid

Gonick

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Recent debates have once again engaged with the substance and meaning of urban politics within our increasingly complex and startling contemporary landscapes. Yet these debates, while giving nods in the direction of feminist and postcolonial scholarship, largely work through traditional lenses of class, labor and the dynamic workings of neoliberal capitalism. In this article, I focus on spaces of difference and their engagement with the urban to demonstrate how politics ‘happens' in locations often left off the map of both scholarship and popular imaginaries, and, crucially, how those locations can, in fact, illuminate shifting political arrangements elided by other methodologies. By juxtaposing European okupa debates with postcolonial discussions of urban informality, I trace what I argue is a new iteration of squatting within a city both ravaged by edicts of neoliberal austerity and buoyed by the efflorescence of social movements and alternative political projects. I then explicate the role of property in constituting the urban within Spain, using the concept of ‘provincialization'. In doing so, I think relationally between systems of property and emergent forms of insurgency to argue that we are witnessing an anticipatory politics that fundamentally challenges hegemonic relationships between everyday citizens and regimes of property ownership.

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Black Internationalism, Subaltern Cosmopolitanism, and the Spatial Politics of Antifascism

Cited by 44 publications

References 31 publications

Environmental injustice and post-colonial environmentalism: Opencast coal mining, landscape and place

Environmental injustice and post-colonial environmentalism: Opencast coal mining, landscape and place

Envisioning place: urban sociabilities within time, space and multiscalar power

From Occupation to Recuperation: Property, Politics and Provincialization in Contemporary Madrid

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