Resistance(s) and Collective Social Action

Chatterton, Paul; Heynen, Nik

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“…Prioritizing basic material needs, like a home, is fundamental to survival. Anchoring resistance in the material, fundamental logic of survival, as Chatterton and Heynen (2011) suggested, moves us away from binary interpretations of resistance and allows us to focus on contradictions, the different identities produced, and the various scales where a reworked concept of resistance is performed. Indeed, scale is important, for although surviving and staying put are key areas for actions, at some point more organized resistance could be needed either to hold on to that survivability or to scale up the fight.…”

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“…Heynen (2006, 191) related survivability to "meeting basic human needs"; feminist geographers such as Katz (2004) have discussed the relationship between survivability and social reproduction and define survivability as a precondition for resistance. Chatterton and Heynen (2011) also defend a renewed focus on the everyday tactics of resistance in the face of the fact that a far-reaching revolution is rarely possible and this allows us to redefine resistance as always relational, situated in space, as a multiplicity of actions, not necessarily emancipatory or oppositional. These everyday resistances can often occur where we do not necessarily expect them to, they can be visible or invisible (we would argue that the invisible practices need much more attention), they can be intentional or nonintentional, and they are not necessarily politically conscious.…”

Section: (Re)asserting the Value Of Survivability In Resisting Gentrimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Resisting Planetary Gentrification: The Value of Survivability in the Fight to Stay Put

Lees

Annunziata

Rivas-Alonso

2017

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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In-depth studies of and attempts to theorize or conceptualize resistance to gentrification have been somewhat sidelined by attention to the causes and effects of gentrification in the now rather extensive gentrification studies literature. Yet resistance to gentrification is growing internationally and remains a (if not the) key struggle with respect to social justice in cities worldwide. In this article, we address this gap head on by (re)asserting the value of survivability for looking at resistance to gentrifications around the globe. U.S. urban scholars have been at the forefront of writing about resistance to gentrification, especially in cities like San Francisco and New York City, but in a situation of planetary gentrification it is imperative that we learn from other examples. Critically, we argue that practices of survivability can be scaled up, down, and in between, enabling the building of further possibilities in the fight against gentrification, the fight to stay put. There needs to be a stronger and more determined international conversation on the potential of antigentrification practices worldwide and here we argue that survivability has a lot to offer these conversations.

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Section: (Re)asserting the Value Of Survivability In Resisting Gentrimentioning

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Resisting Planetary Gentrification: The Value of Survivability in the Fight to Stay Put

Lees

Annunziata

Rivas-Alonso

2017

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…Collective action to demand social reproductive services from the state carries with it demands for political representation and social protection in a changing urban political economy (Brenner and Laslett ; Chatterton and Heynen ). These experiences of struggle prefigure class‐consciousness, which becomes embedded in culture and “embodied in traditions, value systems, ideas, and institutional forms” (Thompson :10).…”

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Ripping the Heart out of Ancoats: Collective Action to Defend Infrastructures of Social Reproduction against Gentrification

Luke

Kaïka

2018

Antipode

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The article exposes attacks on infrastructures of social reproduction as a prime gentrification strategy, but also as an effective focal point for community resistance. We exemplify this through the conflict over Ancoats Dispensary, a Victorian hospital at the heart of one of the UK's most deprived communities in East Manchester, which faced demolition following the 2000 New Islington Regeneration Plan. Using ethnographic and archival data we show how 200 years of community struggles for healthcare became catalytic for establishing Ancoats' working class identity and how Ancoats Dispensary became the spatial/material and symbolic infrastructure for community continuity. The building's socially embedded history became key for articulating anti-gentrification struggles as its planned demolition was seen as a symbolic demolition of the community itself. Local citizens formed the Ancoats Dispensary Trust and utilised tactics from historical struggles and entrepreneurial strategies to envision an alternative future in the defence of social reproduction infrastructures.

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“…From street theater to musical gatherings, collective joy was also integral to Occupy encampments. In both Oaxaca and Occupy, the pleasure and play of the drum circle and the laughter at the political satire of the art of protest were as important as the ethical listening of the assembly (Chatterton and Heynen, 2011). Collective anger and grief often dominate academic descriptions of the "emotional geographies" (Bosco, 2006) of social movements; yet, while common grievances do much to articulate people together, common joys are equally important and without these social movements would not exist.…”

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Assembling the Multitude: Material Geographies of Social Movements from Oaxaca to Occupy

Arenas

2014

Environ Plan D

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In light of the abstract theorizations of scholars of transnational social movement networks—as exemplified by Hardt and Negri's Multitude—in this paper I argue for the power of grounded, material engagements with the practices of protest of social movements to transform not just political spaces, but our theoretical landscapes. I compare the practice of setting up and maintaining encampments in the Oaxaca and Occupy movements to argue that the spatial dynamics of occupation in a tent city fuels the distinctive style of participatory politics of the assembly, providing a creative means to transform confrontation into cooperation. A point of departure for this comparison is my assertion that the political difference made by these social movements lies not just in whether or not they achieved their political goals, but in the kind of intervention that the physical fact of occupying a public space entails in normative understandings of politics and public spaces.

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Resistance(s) and Collective Social Action

Cited by 11 publications

References 68 publications

Resisting Planetary Gentrification: The Value of Survivability in the Fight to Stay Put

Resisting Planetary Gentrification: The Value of Survivability in the Fight to Stay Put

Ripping the Heart out of Ancoats: Collective Action to Defend Infrastructures of Social Reproduction against Gentrification

Assembling the Multitude: Material Geographies of Social Movements from Oaxaca to Occupy

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