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

Featherstone, David

doi:10.1080/14742837.2010.493676

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“…New hope can be encountered in braiding together everyday, emplaced practices of prefigurative community to multiply and nourish relations in place, inducing a renewed sense of closeness to still possibleand previously inconceivablepostcapitalist worlds (Gibson-Graham, 2006;Osborne, 2019). This placed thinking and practicing of world is a useful access point and vital site of action in the maintenance and invigoration of the translocal solidarities which form a key part of postcapitalist praxes (Featherstone, 2008). This parallels a Massey-type politics of 'place beyond place' (Massey et al, 2009: 401), reigniting political debate about the purpose of place via more equal exchange with places beyond.…”

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Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies

Sutherland

2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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In this paper, I outline the spatial imaginaries of the late radical thinker Mark Fisher (1968–2017). I begin by explaining Fisher's focus on culture and desire as forces that must be addressed if an effective postcapitalist politics is to be formed and underscoring that so far in postcapitalist geographies, the roles of culture and desire have been relatively overlooked. I then delineate three spatial imaginaries threaded through Fisher's work, which I call 3D hauntology, grotesque stratigraphy, and acid topology, demonstrating how they offer fresh ideas at the nexus of postcapitalist geography and political strategy. To conclude, I argue that postcapitalist geographers must urgently foster cultural and political experiments that wager on latent popular desire for a future characterised by a reimagined communism.

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Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies

Sutherland

2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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“…Housing struggles prevent mortgage‐indebtedness and conversion into homeowner‐investors. Moreover, protest participation is co‐constitutive of the generation of emancipatory subjectivities and spatialities where subaltern solidarities and economies of care can emerge (Featherstone 2008; Kapsali 2020). Garcia‐Lamarca (2017b) refers to the subjectivation processes as “insurgent practices”, where heterogeneous subjects disidentify with the dominant order and realise their shared exclusions and world‐making capacities (Kapsali 2020).…”

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“…This marking offers a necessary counterpoint against accounts that marginalise the disruptive potency and dynamism of place‐based subaltern resistances, and neglect the incremental advances and generated solidarities in these struggles (Featherstone 2008). Housing struggles can be reduced to localised reactionary politics (Castells 1983) or considered as “militant particularisms”—struggles that must connect to the “general struggle” for a radical transformation of neoliberal capitalism (Davis 2006; Williams 1989:115).…”

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“…Slum activists find ways to transfer these insurgent practices. Even as resistances are often place-based, these learnings and capacities are emplaced on other spaces of dispossessions (Escobar 2001), through social movement networks (Featherstone 2008;Leitner et al 2008), or as activists honed by struggle move or are themselves displaced. Repertoires of contention are adopted and refined, and new modalities emerge to address specific housing dispossessions (Mart ınez L opez 2018).…”

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Disrupting Gentrification: From Barricades and Housing Occupations to an Insurgent Urban Subaltern History in a Southern City

Arcilla

2022

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Housing struggles are key to disrupting gentrification capital flows and dispossessions. Based on life histories, key informant interviews, and six years of engaged ethnography with slum activists in the Philippine capital, this paper explicates political geographies of insurgent housing practices, including community barricades and housing occupations, and marks a history of militant subaltern struggles for the right to the city. I contend that these highly‐organised insurgent practices disrupt real estate capital pathways and nurture political subjectification where emancipatory spaces and socialities of care can be founded. Moreover, I intervene in the lack of attendance to the co‐constitution of barricades and occupations to less visible forms of insurgent housing practices. As these are emplaced to other subaltern times and spaces, political knowledges and subjectivities developed against forced evictions and demolitions enhance anti‐gentrification struggles. In tracing this militant urban history, I mark the incremental advance of subaltern housing struggles in a Southern economy highly reliant on real estate capital investments.

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“…) Another handicap was that both Social Democratic and Communist party and labour leaders regarded the waterfront as a secondary field of work -in sheer numbers, the maritime workers constituted but a small portion of the work force (Eiber 1997;Nelles 2001). Also, as Peter Cole and David Featherstone have underlined, apart from the Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union, the official maritime trade unions in the USA, Britain and elsewhere where preominantly exclusionary and segregationist (Cole 2007;Featherstone 2008). Similar calls for multiracial spaces and organisations by ISH activists faced similar problems in the early 1930s (Featherstone 2015; for a general discussion, see Häberlein 2012).…”

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